The Great Depression - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime | 2

American History Tellers

Wondery

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Factories have shut down, banks have failed, and millions are out of work. As the Depression worsens, public opinion sours toward President Hoover.

Hoover’s allies attempt to counter criticism of the President by galvanizing anti-foreigner attitudes. They devise a scheme to frighten immigrants from Mexico and other countries with the specter of mass immigration raids in the hopes they’ll leave the country on their own, as hundreds of thousands do.

Meanwhile, an unemployed cannery worker from Portland, Oregon leads tens of thousands of World War I veterans on a march to Washington, D.C., to demand payment of wartime bonuses. A deadly showdown looms as this “Bonus Army” wears out its welcome in the capital.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American History Tellers add free on Amazon music.
0:05.8	Download the app today.
0:09.6	Imagine it's July 28, 1932.
0:20.6	You're breathing, pecos behind your gas mask.
0:24.7	This is your first deployment and you're uneasy.
0:27.8	You're not often Europe fighting the Kaiser like your uncle did 15 years ago.
0:32.2	You're in Washington, D.C.
0:34.5	Smoke obscures most of your vision.
0:36.9	But for a second you catch sight of the Capitol dome.
0:39.8	A head, a crowd of haggard men gathers inside a half-completed building on Pennsylvania Avenue.
0:45.3	They all look tired and hungry.
0:47.8	Someone yells down from the building's second floor.
0:50.4	Put your rifles down or we'll knock them down.
0:54.0	Man leans on a crutch at the edge of the building's exposed second floor.
0:58.1	One of his legs is amputated at the knee.
1:00.9	An American flag stretches from one wall to the other.
1:04.1	He begins yelling angrily as he hobbles down some stairs.
1:07.3	William Huska.
1:09.0	His name was Huska.
1:10.8	He marched all the way here from St. Louis and from what?
1:14.4	To get killed in his own country.
1:16.9	When all he did was ask for what was rightfully his.
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