Former U.S. President Herbert Clark Hoover addresses people in Oakland, California during the Great Depression. He speaks out in favor of a balanced budget and against the new spending and taxation proposals of the New Deal under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He says, "The cost of the New Deal threatens to exceed that of the Great War...We have seen the creation of a most gigantic spending bureaucracy. That is not only a reduction of your standard of living, but of your freedom and your hopes. Here is where common sense cries out to be hear. The folly and waste must be cut out of this expenditure, and the federal government budget balanced, or we shall see one of three horsemen ravage this land: Taxation, or repudiation, or inflation...these issues transcend any group or individual. They represent the fate of the nation."
Announcement of support from leaders of finance stops wild trading and market panic at Wall Street in New York City after 13 million shares change hands in one day on the stock market. A large crowd seen gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), around time of Wall Street Crash of 1929.
A barber accepts vegetables for a haircut in Sparta, Michigan, during the Great Depression. Men lined up outside the barber's shop holding sacks and baskets of vegetables, wheat and other produce as barter for haircuts. The barber accepts the produce to aid farm relief. A man getting a haircut by the barber.
People protest against cuts in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) New Deal initiative of the Great Depression in New York City. People march in a large number to protest against lay offs. They hold boards and banners. A banner reads: 'Stop Mass Layoffs on WPA'. Buildings along street sides. Other board reads: 'Expand WPA'. Floats moving on a street.
An abandoned coke-dump in Gary, Indiana. People working in the coal coke dump to get fuel for heating and cooking during the Great Depression. They fill sacks and baskets. A poor child working in the coke dump. People digging out mud from the dump.
The 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt with his daughter Anna Roosevelt and granddaughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall (sometimes known as Sistie) outside a building circa 1930. Roosevelt holds a cane while leaning against a column and plays with his grandson using the cane. People gather in the convention hall for the 1932 Democratic National Convention. Roosevelt addresses them, speaking of the need to "break foolish traditions" and "to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people." The people applaud.
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