Esopus chronologist Angus Trumble charts the (disconcertingly familiar) events of 1933 via newspaper headlines.
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Angus Trumble’s 1933 In Retrospect
By Angus Trumble
"April 2: TOSCANINI HEADS PROTEST TO HITLER / He and Ten Other Musicians of World Fame Ask End of Persecution of Colleagues / LIKELY TO QUIT BEYREUTH
April 6: BEER IS LEGAL AT MIDNIGHT; BREWERS TO BAN “CARNIVAL”; STATE REPEAL VOTE MAY 23
April 18: ROOSEVELT BACKS $144,000,000 SLASH IN ARMY’S BUDGET
April 28: ROOSEVELT RAIL BILL NEXT; ANTI-TRUST AND I. C. C. LAWS SET ASIDE IN DRIVE ON COSTS...."
Angus Trumble (1964–2022) was the director of the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia. He was also a senior research fellow at the National Museum of Australia, as well as a curator at the Yale Center for British Art and the Art Gallery of South Australia. Trumble wrote several books, including A Brief History of the Smile (Basic Books, 2004) and The Finger: A Handbook (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2010). In 2015, he was named a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2022, he was made an honorary fellow of his alma mater, Trinity College, Melbourne.