Memorial Weekend, Day 1: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 25
During Great Depression I, unemployed WW I veterans sold pamphlets, to raise small amounts of cash. Similar in concept to the modern Street News sold by the homeless in New York City, this activity lent these veterans more dignity, than outright begging. Some of the pamphlets had prices on them, but many simply asked people to pay what they pleased.
All this Memorial Day week, we will be presenting some of the cartoons from these pamphlets.
Click on any picture, to see an enlarged version.
The below right photo is of unemployed WW I veterans at the Capitol Steps in Washington, D.C., in 1932. Known as the Bonus Army, they were seeking early payment of a promised service bonus. President Hoover had them forcibly driven out of Washington, D.C., using troops and tear gas — an action which sealed Hoover’s fate that election year.
Click on the photograph below right, to watch Part 1 of the PBS documentary March of the Bonus Army, produced by Glenn Marcus & director Robert Uth, and narrated by Gary Sinise.
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Click here to find the prior Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons entries, and related I.T.C.H. posts.
Doug Wheeler
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