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Newsman Recalls Great Low Mood years of the Great Depression era
Editor Samuel Blackman recounts the 1930s Great Depression era from memory, noting factors like unemployment peaks in 1933 with 14.706 million jobless, bank suspensions rising to 4,004 in 1933 and the Bonus Army march on Washington in 1932 led by WWI veterans.
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Samuel Blackman
Associated Press
Samuel G. Blackman
John Kenneth Galbraith
Harvard Economist
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bank of the
United States
Bonus Expeditionary Force
Washington
Congress
Anacostia Flats
Senate
Herbert Hoover
Douglas MacArthur