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Bennett Buggy (University of Saskatchewan) A Bennett buggy was a term used in Canada during the Great Depression to describe a car which had its engine, windows and sometimes frame work taken out and was pulled by a horse. In the United States, such vehicles were known as Hoover carts or Hoover wagons, named after then-President Herbert Hoover ...
Photos of America during the Great Depression, much like the mood of the country, are often bleak, available only in black and white -- until now.
Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1959). scholarly history online; Watkins, T. H. The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. (2009) online; popular history. Wecter, Dixon. The Age of the Great Depression, 1929–1941 (1948), scholarly social history online; Wicker, Elmus. The Banking Panics of the Great Depression (1996) White, Eugene N.
A Depression-era desperado, he was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina, in 1894. Richard Whittemore: No image available: 1898–1926 Led by Richard Reese Whittemore, the gang went on a year-long crime spree committing payroll, bank, and jewelry robberies in Maryland and New York before their capture in 1926. [2] [11]
Bennett became prime minister after the 1930 election, where the Conservatives won a majority government over William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party. Bennett's premiership was marked primarily by the Great Depression. He and his party initially tried to combat the crisis with laissez-faire policies, but these were largely ineffective.
Some of the contents of the 1929 time capsule discovered in April at the old McLaren Hospital as it was being torn down, seen on display Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at McLaren Hospital in Lansing.
Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie; September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression.
The cast of Friends is honoring the memory of costar Matthew Perry, who died last month at 54 years old.. Perry, who played Chandler Bing on the iconic sitcom, was found unresponsive in his Los ...