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Unemployment in 1930s America
The testimony of Myron Buxton, a draftsman from Newburyport in Massachusetts, is retold. He illustrates the effect that the Depression had on people in the 1930s. He also describes how Herbert Hoover was against government intervention and how this changed when Franklin Roosevelt came into administration.
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