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“The Story Was Not Printed”: The Press Covers the 1930s Banking Crisis
- History, EconomicsJournalism History
- 2019
ABSTRACT The numerous bank failures that were a defining feature of the Great Depression received minimal news coverage. During the early 1930s, the news media consistently downplayed the problems…
“Banks of the People”: The Life and Death of the U.S. Postal Savings System
- Economics, History
- 2017
Abstract:From 1911 to 1966, the United States government operated a savings bank at local post offices. Throughout the early 20th century grassroots agitation to expand the Postal Savings System…
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