http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/photoessay.htm\”The people of the United States are now confronted with an emergency more serious than war. Misery is widespread, in a time, not of scarcity, but of overabundance. The long-continued depression has brought unprecedented unemployment, a catastrophic fall in commodity prices and a volume of economic losses which threatens our financial institutions.\” – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.Read the attached article by Edwin F. Gay published in Foreign Affairs, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Jul., 1932)
