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Hoover to the New Deal

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the 1934 million Americans without work by 31 unemployment had doubled I was building a dream  wimpy some Gloria flash would I be ending in La Habra the prosperity was just around the corner but by 1932 he will be leave them 15 million without jobs and growing desperate once I bring World War 1 veterans living in Seattle Washington the army bonus once I built a tower  my summer more than 20,000 veterans many would advent children were crowded into tenths abandoned buildings and hastily built Shacks in Washington  show their protest for peaceful the Press when did the radicals and Communists and refused to meet with him so the Bonus Army carried its protest to the steps of the Capitol and while Congress they waited with their families on the grass and when word came that the senate had said no they still didn't sign America without money or place to go thousands of the Veterans Day Dawn in Washington I'm relieving Revolution was in the air the general called out the troops  government workers we just leaving downtown offices Valla troops and tanks were coming down Pennsylvania Avenue tear gas filled the air the government became clear MacArthur's forces followed in Brazil driving the veterans and their families from the sitting and burning the cap to the ground  how many Americans work what time is action the president was blamed for the Republican humanitarian incompetent and unfeeling elections  by Inauguration Day the banking system has collapsed all over the country thousands of banks in field as investors rushed in panic to withdraw their savings the mood was that France and Americans turned anxiously to their radios and I am certain that my fellow Americans president I will address them with a panda and a decision with the present situation of our people in Fells Masonry 10 / action and action now  and Roosevelt took action calling the new Congress into special session reduce Emergency Banking legislation and declared a bank holiday and for a few days we all learn to live without money banquet changing fast when Roosevelt declared I think it's time for beer Congress quickly and green for the first time in set at that guy having a drink  during the first hundred days Congress was busy creating Federal programs to bring relief recovery and reform the signs of change everywhere people with going back to work by Fall the president had reason to be optimistic  unemployment playing it another way 40% of those seeking would have found it our troubles will not be over tomorrow but we are on our play and we are headed in the right direction FBI and money including the new president or wearing events in Asia also cause concern the president could meet Japanese what's at the White House with his wife but he could do little about Japanese aggression in September 91 Army rumors about taking all of China 1933 Adolph become Chancellor German Stormtroopers Peppa Peppa Peppa Peppa Peppa Peppa Italian forces have taken Ethiopia by 36 students in Peking we're marching to protest in Japan China war Warhead already be gone when civil war broke out in 1936 many Americans were getting worried someone speaking out close  I have seen war on land and sea  Francine plugs running from the Moon Branson men popping out back down to lungs wetting the bed in the mud Plainfield describe  I have sightings 200 limping exhaustion come out of line 721 / 48 I have seen some spotting turn theme Muslim or Roosevelt to do US military forces when we were over in America town of North Dakota foreign words  by the fall of 1937 there were other Foreign Wars Japan was bombing pineapple and the wife of General next Boca  just as the echo exploding bombs have died down comes from the Clear Blue Sky just as it has come to solve me about innocent people throughout the lens rest of our lives were wanting to the West a blue 38 Hitler swallowed Austria by Paul German demands for the sudetenland the german-speaking area Czechoslovakia brought you were on the brink of War British prime minister Neville Chamberlain Hitler to check crisis the Munich agreement what's on  we didn't date Hitler was lifting his next victims and their eye stop by rounding up Jews in Germany  by the fall of 39 Europe was at war with morning Hitler's armies invaded Poland September 1st within 3 days of the Nazi Britain and France declared war in America president called Congress into special session to consider the European prices central to Americans By Radio  since May will remain a neutral Nation but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well I am setting on once but many times that I have seen wall and that I hate play rap game and game I hope they married States will keep out of this wall  I believe play will  in the 30 the Depression was everywhere in the city jobs to the stomach hot sauce paper bags even underwear some who lost their home looking to Shanty towns called Hoovervilles that mushroomed around every city dump men fought each other over garbage  Manning won Steven Stein  during the worst years of the depression Minions rule the land becoming Hobo's hopping Freight begging or stealing to stay alive  my body is like dead men or everywhere radicals and reactionaries gained power as people search for leadership and answers you can turn to fear and anger people took to the streets communist-led hunger much is a 90 big city and attractive the week before Americans went 3220 employed field District to Chicago sometimes they were confrontations with police like in Brooklyn in 1933 soon after taking Office Roosevelt mommy glider some people are being stepped on and I'm going to be stepped on but these toes belong to the comparative fuel who seek to retain all the pain physician our riches are both thank God good  the program of the past FDR became a hero to the common man he also got the support of the middle-class housewife how does the federal government country realizes prank with all great presidents on the Blue Angels and his plan full of all power must not stay lit real priest with an audience of millions added hit support phone cover  that you remain steadfast behind the one man  who can save this civilization about Bella Vita Rose Ballroom to you and do our national life not the CCC the Civilian Conservation Corps was most popular program caps run jointly by the service  each man was paid $30 a month to fight Forest irrigation ditches and plant trees but probably more important than the trees planted for the fires put out with the Hope given to the 2 and 1/2 me who joined the CCC 90 Woodland Point  thousands of farmers unable pay rent for mortgages lost their lines and took to the road in a fruitless search for work then as if things weren't bad enough can you scan at turn the Great Plains into a giant Dust Bowl Farms that when buried for Blown Away stop far east as New York and Connecticut  show pictures and popes died on rooftops and running board iGoodbye began the Great Migration West to California a million in the thirties by The Dream men camouflage from the Ohio to the Hudson river is went on the Rampage and 36 parts of downtown Pittsburgh for 10 underwater  just after Christmas the flood and Skip Johnstown Pennsylvania leaving 900 dead and half a million homeless four generation conservationist 10 many of the games we played in the thirties were ones we played at home they would shape Bridge became pop it over the middle class and words like Trump a note we're hurting living rooms from Atlanta to Los Angeles  play some puzzles to became a crazy department stores sold Millions Sarah Americans who could at least get the satisfaction of making some sense out of the chaos in front of them  so what you trying to do two things at once we're gambling but almost everyone seems to be taking chances  when the Bingo caller hollered B-29 it could be profitable if you have the right card we even went to the movies in the thirties hoping to win cash  pinball machine first appeared in 1932 on Mike and satisfaction you couldn't win as you could with the one on Venice we got 15 billion nickels are these slots in the thirties more money than we spend on shoes  you spent much larger sounds betting on the horses the Hollywood Race Track open in 38 Andrew daily crowds and $40,000 cross the country state and local governments relax laws against and summer star little more Reckless  during the Depression Saturday's Mets baseball team Sports band for the first time Saturday off spend Saturday afternoon hot dog everybody seemed what baseball hero in the New York Yankees what 39 and helped the Yankees to Victory International scene for Olympic steaks you're not more dramatic than in Berlin in 36 for the Nazis we are the master race rule an unexpected drum and athletes to prove it what is are having salad on a black American from Jesse Owens gold medal victories in Berlin and was called the fastest man in the world switch play won the Tennessee and wishes during the Depression Charles Lindbergh live seemed almost like a dream come true it's like two parrots making the greatest hero of his Generation idolized by millions everything you did was is married to an tomorrow daughter of a diplomatic the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped in March of pretty cool the dream turned into Nightmare for weeks the search for the baby was Saints news then can the headline baby dead  outraged by the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder the public Congress passed laws that gave the federal government some criminals like Al Capone the one seemed almost beyond the law have been sent to jail for income tax evasion now government agents called G-Men became Heroes if they crack down on crime the most famous was J Edgar Hoover director FBI  there is nothing mysterious about the Menace with the Federal Bureau of Investigation Works its formula training kathlee investigated in Hialeah 61st and L no woman in America was more famous than the first lady she went everywhere into the mines and soup kitchen she even prison ships too many Eleanor Roosevelt seen the outspoken conscience of America and she was an inspiration to millions of women I want to do things Alvin money people radio in the thirties was something like glue it stuck together at a Chinese laughing we're paid the biggest salary videos of the two white men created the black characters and every weekday night at 7 most of the country to hear what they had to say president  one of the biggest radio Stars couldn't even speak for himself but by the end of the decade Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen has become so popular they were made honorary Texas Rangers one level 30 what Americans own at least one by the decades at  and everybody spent a lot of time listening and reading magazines were popular and the corner newsstand was an American institution in the thirties read comics and everybody funny when we really wanted to escape we went to the movie two-thirds of the country went at least once a week when do they were Grandeur ordinary movie theaters where our public temples in the thirties vast dark places where light and Shadows on a screen turn off while into another worth  these are your best entertainment they advertise and most of us agree how much reality in the movies we like that but they were fun I want something special came to the local movie house we stood in line to get in  all you had to do was back to Marquis what was playing the movie somehow if you were a kid it seems a lot more exciting recent photos of Coming Attractions withdraw small crowd after school for those growing up in such a Time the movies were magic Larger than Life and they made us feel good too commercial air travel began in the 30 by 1934 you can fly round trip between Chicago and New York for $86 the Douglas luxury liner was introduced a transatlantic flight stop sign what did was offering streamline service between New York and Chicago spunk the depression City skylines were also changing the 30 the Empire State Building was completed in 1931 it was the tallest sing in the world the George Washington Bridge was completed the same year it was the world's longest suspension bridge June 30th construction always group pause some of the biggest project to the decade was sponsored by the federal government  schools courthouses Rose and federal post offices in towns and cities All Over America the Public Works Administration employed and we change the face of we built the Lincoln Tunnel on the Triboro bridge in New York we build a fort in Brownsville Texas at the highway from Key West to the Florida Mainland we even built for the biggest project that we build with down the Colorado River to build Boulder Dam we move tons of rock we mix Sand and Stone to make concrete as we rearrange the Earth who plays wrong with everybody dreamed of looking like a movie star then you had it made who owns the money more Duke Ellington on the way Armstrong more the man with the clarinet Benny Goodman he was the King of Swing  jazz Jitterbug and Boogie Woogie swing crave the sweet soothing music of the Depression years was blasted out of the air by the news town and by 1937 everybody was dancing like never before 20000 showed up at a swing Carnival in New York and 38th 200,000 Jam Chicago Soldiers Field that summer to Shake The Blues sisters  I'm dancing made it a little easier to forgot some of the storms of the decade we were better off by 39 but none who have lived through these years could ever forgot them not survive through faith I'm sorry I'm by hanging on the week other it was a time of Great Dane dieting and human suffering but all of us were in ways and Nobles by the time we had survived

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