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The old man was silent for a while
and then he said:
BARITY ARCHIVES GOVERNMENT "NATIONAL SERVICE" RECORDS TRUMAN AND LIBRARY
"Son, I've listened to sad stories for fifty years
and that's the saddest one I've heard yet."
I agree. I can think of no harder job than to try
to sell the Republican Party to the men and women of Gary
who lived through those dark years of the Republican depression
in Nineteen Thirty - Thirty-one and Thirty-two.
More than twelve million able bodied Americans
couldn't find work.
The average hourly wage in industry was only
forty-five cents and take-home pay was barely Seventeen Dollars
a week.
There was no unemployment compensation,
no work relief - just bread lines.
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