1. The Great Depression Sacks the World B Y S HAYNE C URETON

2. I had a great year playing for coach Rockne at Notre Dame www.biography.com www.notredame.com

3. My Dream has finally come true…I’m in the league. www.bgsu.edu

4. American Professional Football Association had just started up, and I got to play against the best players in the nation. www.cmgww.com

5. I played for the Chicago bears and met a long time friend named Harold Grange H E WAS THE BEST RUNNING BACK IN THE LEAGUE M Y FIRST PAY CHECK WAS AMOUNTED TO $64 A GAME. I WAS GLAD I AT LEAST HAD MONEY COMING IN BECAUSE OF THE DEPRESSION. M OST PEOPLE HAD NO MONEY AT ALL www.ultimatebearsfan.com

6. W E WERE IN GREAT SHAPE UNTIL THE DEPRESSION HIT Our main rival, the Canton Bulldogs franchise, didn’t survive it along with 10 other teams www.digitaldeliftp.com

7. As soon as I got my name out there I had women popping out of the woodwork. Girls I had never seen before were trying to be my friend I THINK IT ’ S BECAUSE I’ M STILL GETTING A PAY CHECK www.news-antique.com

8. T HINGS BEGIN TO GET WORSE. T HE NEWS IS SAYING THAT PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO HOARD MONEY. www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/1920s-gangsters.html

9. Prices are also rising and falling for some odd reason M Y FROM THE DEPRESSION TOO

10. A New Deal came out that protected me from dishonest trading practices in the stock market T HE SEC THEY CALLED IT

11. A little after Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected I began to get taxed by something called Social Security. www.notablebiographies.com T HIS UPSET ME A LITTLE BIT.

12. Between May 1928 and September 1929, the average prices of stocks will rise 40 percent. The boom is largely artificial. Between May 1928 and September 1929, the average prices of stocks will rise 40 percent. The boom is largely artificial. Herbert Hoover becomes President. Stock market crash begins October 24. Investors call October 29 Black Tuesday. Losses for the month will total $16 billion, an astronomical sum in those days. 1929 1928 1930 1930 The GNP falls 9.4 percent from the year before. The unemployment rate climbs from 3.2 to 8.7 percent. 1932 1932 Industrial stocks have lost 80 percent of their value since 1930. 10,000 banks have failed since 1929, or 40 percent of the 1929 total. GNP has also fallen 31 percent since 1929. Over 13 million Americans have lost their jobs since 1929.

13. 1934 A three-day dust storm blows an estimated 350 million tons of soil off of the terrain of the West and Southwest and deposits it as far east as New York and Boston. 1935 FDR signs legislation creating the Works Progress Administration. 1940 Franklin Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented third term as president, defeating Wendell Willkie.

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