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Abstract
There is no need to mention much of my life before I enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps. It is sufficient to say that the six months previous to my enlistment were most unsatisfactory, from both a financial and mental standpoint. I was often hungry, and almost constantly broke.
Book contents
- The Great Depression
- The New Deal
- Herbert Hoover: Annual Message to Congress Year: 1931
- John Dos Passos: “Harlan: Working under the Gun” Year: 1931
- Herbert Hoover: “The Consequences of the Proposed New Deal” Year: 1932
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address Year: 1933
- Walter Reuther: “Auto Workers Strike” Year: 1933
- Emergency Banking Relief Act Year: 1933
- National Industrial Recovery Act Year: 1933
- Tennessee Valley Authority Act Year: 1933
- Wayne W. Parrish: Letter to Harry Hopkins Year: 1934
- Huey Long: “Every Man a King” Address Year: 1934
- John S. Gambs: “United We Eat” Year: 1934
- Ralph Borsodi: “President Roosevelt’s New Land and Population Policy” Year: 1934
- Paul Taylor: “Again the Covered Wagon” Year: 1935
- Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States Year: 1935
- National Labor Relations Act Year: 1935
- Robert Clifton Weaver: “The New Deal and the Negro: A Look at the Facts” Year: 1935
- Frances Perkins: “Social Insurance for U.S.” Radio Address Year: 1935
- Social Security Act Year: 1935
- Huey Long: “Share Our Wealth” Address Year: 1935
- Huey Long: “Our Growing Calamity” Address Year: 1935
- Report of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee Year: 1936
- Ellen S. Woodward: Address before the Democratic Women’s Regional Conference for Southeastern States Year: 1936
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden Year: 1936
- Aubrey Williams: “The Problem of Unemployment” Year: 1936
- Robert L. Miller: “It’s a Great Life” Year: 1937
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary Year: 1937
- Act to Establish a Civilian Conservation Corps Year: 1937
- Fair Labor Standards Act Year: 1938
- John Steinbeck: “Starvation Under the Orange Trees” Year: 1938
- Robert Fechner: “My Hopes for the CCC” Year: 1939
- Testimony of Otis Nation to the Tolan Committee on Internal Migration Year: 1940