Magic Shantyvator
on October 27, 2017
Thank you for indulging me my Hoover/Wonka tale to commemorate the week of the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Also, a very happy birthday to Theodore Roosevelt! (And me!)
Hooverville
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Dust Bowl Boat Ride
on October 26, 2017
Chapter: 2017 - October
Characters: Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Republican, Warren G Harding, Woodrow Wilson
Location: Hooverville
During the Harding administration, when Herbert Hoover had enormous power over policy while in the cabinet, he actually did propose that farmers plant cover crops to restore exhausted farmland back into grassy plains to prevent the kind of wind erosion[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Chicken in Every Pot
on October 25, 2017
Chapter: 2017 - October
Characters: Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Warren G Harding, Woodrow Wilson
Location: Hooverville
“A chicken in every pot” was a familiar expression by the time the election of 1928 came around, but it was with Herbert Hoover that the phrase was most associated, with the added phrase “and a car in every backyard,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Black Thursday
on October 24, 2017
Chapter: 2017 - October
Characters: Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Warren G Harding, Woodrow Wilson
Location: Hooverville
Today marks the anniversary of Black Thursday on October 24, 1929, when the stock market began to crash, concluding five days later on Black Tuesday, the end and biggest day of the fall. It’s debatable today whether the Wall Street[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hooverville
In an effort to paint Herbert Hoover solely responsible for what became known as the Great Depression, the Democratic party immediately went to work to brand the images of devastating poverty as “Hooverian.” The shanty towns became Hoovervilles, newspapers became[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
