Smith 2Radio politics 3Harry Stevens’s moment in history 4The year of the locust 5Pep, ginger, and Mitch 6The Pang of a Wolf 7Slave camps 1The seditious A.E. Smith The usual New Year’s fanfare heralding the end of hard times (“LOW POINT OF DEPRESSION REACHED IN FEBRUARY LAST YEAR, SAYS OTTAWA EXPERT”) was scarcely off the front pages before the Prime Minister found himself in hot water in Vancouver. With eight thousand families on relief in that city and more than forty thousand on the verge of financial collapse, Bennett, queried by a reporter on the question of the Dominion’s public debt, was so incautious as to reply: “If you want to know who is responsible for all this debt, look at yourself in the mirror when you are shaving tomorrow. There are people who say let’s spend more money, well and good, but where is the money coming from? Where is the spirit of our pioneers who tilled our soil and worked in your forests? Did they go to the government whenever they wanted anything?
What do You think about The Great Depression (2001)?
