New York Times Coverage in 1935
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The New York Times from September and October of 1935 provides a strong sense of the issues of import to the people of the time, the concerns they faced both domestically and internationally, and the nature of life in New York City. We look back to this time with greater knowledge than the people of the time had about the meaning of the events they were contemplating, but it is clear from the emphasis given to stories about Mussolini and Hitler that the newspaper and its readers realized there were momentous events taking place and that these might produce a real danger for the U.S. at some point in the future. At the same time, as might be expected, life goes on, and the life of the city was especially vibrant in this era with an emphasis on diversions in sports, the arts, the theater, and film. One impression that emerges from this analysis is that while we might think of 1935 as a distant time with very different attitudes and preoccupations, in fact there are parallels with our own age that show how much we are like the people of that time and how many of our concerns are similar to their own. This was the era of the developing of the New Deal in Washington, much in the news recently as the current crop of Republicans in Congress set out to dismantle it. In 1935, it was in its beginnings and was seen as a vital element in reviving the American economy during the Depression. Among the projects being created at this time were the Tennessee Valley Authority and similar
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dress. The reporters traveled across the Midwest to find out what troubled people, and what they found was that people were largely troubled by their own problems. Farmers and businessmen were not thinking much about the New Deal or the war but were thinking about ways of growing better crops, about the effect of new factories on the young, about the state of the economy and its potential for improvement, and so on ("Inquiry into What People Are Thinking" 11).
A similar survey of the people of New York is not included, but it would seem they were concerned about many of the same sorts of things and were more interested in what affected them directly and immediately than in what might occur in Europe or even in the country at large. Crime news was often featured in the newspaper, showing clearly that people have always been interested in the crime problem, though in the 1930s crime was not addressed as the epidemic we see it as today. The crimes tended to be treated more as single events--tragic, but not such as to imperil every citizen. A number of incidents were related to organized crime, active then as now and given to settling differences with a gun. The gangsters of the 1930s seem better known to us today than the ones
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Approximate Pages = 13 (250 words per page)
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