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November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) ... 1035 – Cnut the Great, Danish-English king (b. c.995) 1087 – William I, Count of Burgundy (b. 1020)
Schwartz was born Anna Jacobson on November 11, 1915, in New York City to Pauline (née Shainmark) and Hillel Jacobson. [9]She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College [10] at 18 and gained her master's degree in economics from Columbia University in 1935, at 19.
The term "The Great Depression" is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with formalizing the phrase, [230] though Hoover is widely credited with popularizing the term, [230] [231] informally referring to the downturn as a depression, with such uses as "Economic ...
The lessons of the generation that weathered the Great Depression include self-sufficiency, frugality, and improvisation. ... 12 Things We Can Learn From the Great Depression. Saundra Latham. June ...
The famous Depression-era photo taken by Charles C. Ebbets in 1932, which features construction workers sitting on a steel girder high above the Manhattan skyline, has been recreated -- only this ...
Ima and her ostriches later became the protagonists of a picture book, Ima & the Great Texas Ostrich Race, by Margaret Olivia McManis and Bruce Dupree. [31] Her mother never regained her strength after Thomas's birth, and for the remainder of her life was a semi-invalid. [26] Ima accompanied her to several health spas during their years in ...
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.
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 Library of Congress titled the image: "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children.