Show LEST WE FORGET I 1 few peo people ale who live in washington will ever forget the new deals natal day that day dawned a dark one in every respect the great depression hung over the a country like a darkening clo cloud banks were closing literally by the hundreds life savings in bank accounts and securities were bein being blown away like so much dust homes and farms were going on the auction block in in ever increasing numbers in certain sections citizens were beginning to grow desperate word reached washington that morning marnina 0 of hungry people raiding a food store in one community in the southwest in another state only a few days before irate citizens had forcibly stopped a foreclosure sale and in another they had actually dragged a judge from the bench and threatened to tar and feather him tor for carrying out the state law in declaring the forfeit in a farmers mortgage new york times march 3 1940 |