Neville recalls that during the Depression of the 1920s and 1930s one could buy eight beautiful glasses at Tiffany for seventy-five cents, gift-wrapped, while people too embarrassed to walk in paid more at Macy's or Gimbels.
Date (happened)
between 1920 and 1939
unresolved
between 1920 and 1939
stated · preferred
after 1929
stated
Why
Matches the event's own title ('New York life during the Depression').
Reasoning
Neville places his own New York life, and the pricing anecdotes he tells (Tiffany glassware, a $12 suit), against the financial Depression, which he directly and unambiguously dates as 'starting in 1929'. This is a well-known, explicitly named historical anchor, so it is written certain. No specific end year is given in the passage, so this is written as an open-ended 'after 1929' bound rather than a between-range with an invented endpoint.
Told / reported
3 March 1972
stated · doubtful
3 April 1972
estimated
Why
Two delivery claims disagreed by exactly one month (March vs April); took the certain one, [d1], which the lecture's own words ('This is now only April') independently confirm.
Reasoning
Lecture nid 59 carries 2 delivery claims: [d0] 1972-03-03 stated/doubtful (a legacy catalog entry, #669, already flagged as a probable copy of the date given to the adjacent catalogue entry #668 rather than a genuine witness) and [d1] 1972-04-03 stated/certain, corroborated by two independent witnesses: the transcript's own chrome dateline ('April 3, 1972') and Neville's own statement inside the lecture, 'This is now only April'. Taking [d1]: it is both the higher-confidence claim and the internally corroborated one; [d0]'s March date is directly contradicted by the lecture's own text naming April.
Sources
Source
- Justified States ¶61 (Well, back in the 1920s, 1930s, we had a deep financial Depression starting in 1929, and do you know that you could go to Tiffany, and buy, say, eight glasses, beautiful glasses for a wedding present, cost you, what? Not more than seventy-five cents.)