Short selling and market manipulation in the 1929 crash era
A market analysis argues stocks rise or fall under pressure from bear traders, noting that even rich investors suffer losses and pondering whether federal limits on short selling would help. It critiques speculative betting, calls the market a gamble, and questions who truly owns securities when purchases are never delivered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Wall Street
America
Percy Rockefeller
John Ds
Two Sides to Question of Deferring Tax Sales
The article debates postponing the 1930 tax certificate sales in North Carolina. It argues only the legislature can change the law and notes unpaid taxes vary by county. It questions how far authorities should bow to popular demand for postponement.
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Guilford
North Carolina
America
Barrett Willoughby
Houghton Mifflin Company
Miss Willoughby
Taxes and public duty in hard pressed times
The piece argues taxes burden both payers and delinquents, urging strict collection to preserve public credit. It notes wage cuts and farm prices, calls for cautious, humane relief programs, and highlights Syracuse mayoral testing a city food aid plan to assess impact on the poor.
Mystery of Two Thirds of Proposed Savings
The Guilford County Taxpayers association questions a 10 cent additional tax cut beyond a proposed five cent reduction. It asks how the full savings from the school and road act can be achieved without harming county operations, noting refunds of debts may be required to avoid a rate increase. Further clarification is urged.
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Guilford County Taxpayers’ Association
General Assembly
Reding
Fidelity of Women and Prohibition Front in North Carolina
The Observer echoes The New York Times praise for women united behind prohibition amid calls to repeal or modify the Eighteenth Amendment. It notes their firm stance at the Chicago convention and their key role in North Carolina with the Anti-Saloon League and the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
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New York Times
Hoover
the Times
Mr. Hoover
Chicago
Times
Congress
Union
North Carolina
Anti-Saloon League
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Syracuse Mayor Tests Nine Cent Diet For Charitable Feeding
The Syracuse mayor undertakes a personal nine cent daily diet to test a scientifically developed meal plan. The move aims to weigh affordable nutrition amid unemployment and growing reliance on charity as city funds strain under relief demands.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Greensboro urged to seize big chance of bank reopening
An editorial argues Greensboro should act to reopen United Bank and Trust, calling the move a pivotal epoch for the city’s finances and morals. It outlines an organized signature campaign to speed deposits and emphasizes the community’s obligation to grasp the opportunity.
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Greensboro
United Bank and Trust Company
United Bank
Night School Night Visit Shows Hope In Literacy Rise
A visitor details a Thursday night at Emma Blair Night School praising three classes led by dedicated instructors. He notes students gain ability to read and write, including a man who can now write to family, and fractions lessons that many mastered. The work, supported by the Woman's Club, aims to uplift the community through improved literacy and Bible reading.
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Emma Blair
Woman's Club
Winston- Galem
Night school students strive for genuine learning
Adults arriving to catch up on neglected talents devote full effort to night school work. They seek honest critique to profit from past deficiencies, a noble earnestness that educators and peers should emulate. Government economies may preserve funding for night schools and other educational programs.
Night school’s lasting impact praised for future generations
The article extols night school work, noting that the seed sown now will yield a mighty harvest as youths reach maturity. It argues that this effort benefits future citizens by cultivating the mental soil of present illiterates who lacked a basic common school education.
Plumbers fight Raleigh board costs and repeal call
The writer laments a state plumbing board added to regulate the trade in North Carolina. He argues it burdens small contractors with fees, licenses, and inspections, raises taxes, and harms taxpayers, urging repeal before the next Raleigh session. The letter names THOS. W. KIMSEY of High Point.
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N. C
Raleigh
Congress
State Capitol
R. J. Reynolds
Plumbing Board
Board of Plumbers
Thos. W. Kimsey
Tate Street
Crime Statistics Highlight U S Murder Rates
The Enterprise reports 1930s style crime data from Professor Kenneth E. Barnhart noting Memphis leads at 58.8 murders per 100 000. New York 7.1 Philadelphia 7.7 Los Angeles 6.6. Pueblo 21.9 and Miami 36.8. It links immigration to crime and urges exclusion deportation education and Americanization.
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the Enterprise
United States
Kenneth E. Barnhart
Birmingham-Southern College
Memphis
Tennessee
New York
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Chicago
Pueblo
Colorado
Miami
Florida
Texas
Casternella
Castellamio
Eapanosa
Gilberto Sanchez
Concepcion Crochoa
Saferino Garza
Candelleria
Josef Pachecho
Felipe Trinidad
Zyemut Karpienski
Bright Skin and Other Reads Highlight 1930s Negro Life Novels
A review roundup covers Mrs. Peterkin’s Bright Skin praising authentic portrayal of Blue and Cricket amid plantation life, with later arcs of illegitimacy and murder. Also featured are Larry Rue’s Fly for News adventures, Modern Library poetry and Plutarch editions, and notes on several contemporary novels and authors including Stella Benson and Barrett Willoughby.
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Blue
Cricket
Gramma
Man Jay
Harlem
Thrilas
Larry Rue
Albert
Charles Boni
Chicago Tribune
Rue
Strifetorn
Afghanistan
Amanullah
M.E
Mahmoud Abdul Fath
Sybian Desert
Abd-el-Krim
Riff
Larry Rué
Europe
Asia
Trotzky
Mustapha Kemal
Primo de Rivera
Shelley's Poems and Plutarch Lives in Modern Library
A review lauds the Modern Library edition combining Shelley's complete poems with Mrs Mary Shelley notes and adds Keats posthumous works and Shelley's juvenilia. It also praises Plutarch Lives translated by Dryden and revised by Arthur Hugh Clough as a modern unabridged edition, highlighting engaging biographies of Theseus Romulus Pericles and others and noting low cost.
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Modern Library, Inc
Serias
Keats
Shelley
Plutarch
England
Mary Shelley
Milton
Kespeare
Dryden
Arthur Hugh Clough
Clough
Christ
Theseus
Romulus
Pericles
Timoleon
Aristides
Cato
Pompey
Alexander
Caesar
Cicero
Antony
Brutus
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R. B. Terry
High Point
City News
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Pub
B. Katz Special Advertising Agency
New York City
Chicago, Il
Charlotte Observer
Greensboro Record
Jamestown
Enterprise
High Point, N. C
Ernest Hemingway
Flaubert
Balzac
Orroll
Boccacio
Marcel Proust
Swanns Way
D’annunzio
Kipling
Stevensons
Joe Schnitzler
Bertha Gar
St. Paul
Bobbs-Merrill
Bruce Barton
Stella Benson
Royal Society of Literature of England
Harper & Brothers
J. C. O'Gorman Anderson
Hong Kong
China
London
Kanto
Manchuria
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