Terkel interviewed hundreds of people across the United States for
his book on the Great Depression of the 1930s. In 1973, he selected
several interviews that were included in his book to be broadcast
in eleven parts on the Studs Terkel Program on WFMT radio (Chicago,
IL).  This
gallery includes the interviews in those programs.
Terkel questions people about their recollections of employment problems,
the crash of 1929, organized labor issues, “farm holidays”
where crops were destroyed, and U.S. President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt’s
New Deal programs. He asks them how they managed financially and personally
through the economic slump and what personal qualities surfaced as
a result. In particular he seems interested in exploring the relationship
between their personal plight and values and their awareness of national
issues and society’s values.
Quotes from “A Personal Memoir (and parenthetical comment)”
to Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression:
“This is a memory book rather than one of hard fact and precise
statistic….The precise fact or the precise date is of small
consequence. This is not a lawyer’s brief nor an annotated
sociological treatise. It is simply an attempt to get the story
of the holocaust known as The Great Depression from an improvised
battallion of survivors.”
“That there are some who were untouched or, indeed, did rather
well isn’t exactly news. This has been true of all disasters.
The great many were wounded, in one manner or another. It left upon
them an ‘invisible scar’….The suddenly-idle hands
blamed themselves, rather than society. True, there were hunger
marches and protestations to City Hall and Washington, but the millions
experienced a private kind of shame when the pink slip came. No
matter that others suffered the same fate, the inner voice whispered,
‘I’m a failure.’”
“True there was a sharing among many of the dispossessed,
but, at close quarters, frustration became, at times, violence,
and violence turned inward. Thus, sons and fathers fell away, one
from the other. And the mother, seeking work, said nothing. Outside
forces, except to the more articulate and political rebels, were
in some vague way responsible, but not really. It was a personal
guilt.”
Copyright © 2000 Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. Reprinted by permission of The New Press.
The Hard Times Recordings
To listen to a sound, click on the file name of that selection.
Real Audio is required for these recordings. If your system does
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Interivew with Oscar Heleen
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| Date: |
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| Summary: |
Interview with Oscar Heleen, a farmer, on farm depression, farm holidays and repossesion. |
| Keywords: |
repossession, Farm depression, Depressions -- 1929, Heleen, Oscar, farm holidays |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Heleen, Oscar
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Interview with Alf Landon
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Alf Landon, the governor of Kanaa, on the New Deal. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Landon, Alf, New Deal |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Landon, Alf
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Interview with Anna Ramsey
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Anna Ramsey on shame, mortgage loans, and credit. |
| Keywords: |
Shame, Depressions -- 1929, Ramsey, Anna, morgage loans, credit |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Ramsey, Anna
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Interview with Ben Isaacs and Ward James
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Ben Isaacs and Ward James on shame in taking relief and prying case workers. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, James, Ward, Isaacs, Ben, Shame, case workers |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
James, Ward
Isaacs, Ben
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Interview with Bob Leary
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Bob Leary, a cab driver whose father did extra work during the Depression to maintain his self-esteem. |
| Keywords: |
work ethic, Depressions -- 1929, Leary, Bob |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Leary, Bob
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Interview with Bob Stinson
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Bob Stinson, an auto worker, on the Flint sit-down strike of 1937 and the beginning of UAW-CIO. |
| Keywords: |
Labor, Depressions -- 1929, Stinson, Bob, Flint sit-down strike of 1937 |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Stinson, Bob
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Interview with Buddy Blankenship
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Buddy Blankenship, a miner, on company stores, hard work, and black lung disease. |
| Keywords: |
hard work, company stores, labor, Depressions -- 1929, Blankenship, Buddy, black lung disease |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Blankenship, Buddy
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Interview with C.B. Baldwin and Ed Paulson
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with C.B. Baldwin and Ed Paulson, an Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture and a Chicago resident, respectively, on the New Deal, the Farm Security Administration, and public indifference. |
| Keywords: |
public indifference, New Deal, Depressions -- 1929, Paulson, Ed, Baldwin, C.B., Farm Security Administration |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Paulson, Ed
Baldwin, C.B.
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Interview with Cesar Chavez - Part 1
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Cesar Chavez, a union organizer, on migrant farm workers and discrimination against Mexicans. |
| Keywords: |
discrimination, Migrant farm workers, Labor, Depressions -- 1929, Chavez, Cesar |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Chavez, Cesar
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Interview with Cesar Chavez - Part 2
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Cesar Chavez, a union organizer, on migrant farm workers and discrimination against Mexicans. |
| Keywords: |
discrimination, Migrant farm workers, Labor, Depressions -- 1929, Chavez, Cesar |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Chavez, Cesar
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Interview with Children of People Who Went Through the Depression
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
A montage of unidentified, young voices: Children of people who went through the Depression and their experience with their parentsÂ’ frugality, fear, and economic striving. |
| Keywords: |
frugality, Change in lifestyle, Depressions -- 1929, fear, economic striving |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
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Interview with Doc Graham
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Doc Graham, a gangster associate and quasi-legal entreprenuer. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Graham, Doc, poverty |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Graham, Doc
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Interview with Dorothy Bernstein
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Dorothy Bernstein, a waitress, on the shame in welfare. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Bernstein, Dorothy, Shame, welfare |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Bernstein, Dorothy
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Interview with Ed Paulsen - Part 1
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Ed Paulsen, a dayworker, on unemployment and the serach for jobs. |
| Keywords: |
Unemployment, Depressions -- 1929, Paulsen, Ed |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Paulsen, Ed
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Interview with Ed Paulsen - Part 2
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Ed Paulsen, a dayworker, on unemployment and the search for jobs. |
| Keywords: |
Unemployment, Depressions -- 1929, Paulsen, Ed |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Paulsen, Ed
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Interview with Edgar Yipsel (Yip) Harburg
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Edgar Yipsel (Yip) Harburg, a songwriter who wrote about unemployment in "Brother Can You Spare Me a Dime". |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Harburg, Edgar Yipsel (Yip), Unemployment |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Harburg, Edgar Yipsel (Yip)
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Interview with Eileen Barthe
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Eileen Barthe, a relief case worker, on the humiliation to the recipients of relief. |
| Keywords: |
shame, Depressions -- 1929, Barthe, Eileen, humiliation |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Barthe, Eileen
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Interview with Elsa Ponselle
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Elsa Ponselle on shame and the lack of jobs. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Ponselle, Elsa, shame |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Ponselle, Elsa
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Interview with Emil and Ruth Loricks
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Emil and Ruth Loricks, two farmers, about farm depression. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Loricks, Ruth, Loricks, Emil, Farm Depression |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Loricks, Ruth
Loricks, Emil
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Interview with Emil and Ruth Loricks
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Emil and Ruth Loricks, two farmers, on the farm depression in Arlington, VA. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Loricks, Ruth, Loricks, Emil, Farm Depression |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Loricks, Ruth
Loricks, Emil
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Interview with Emma Tiller - Part 1
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Emma Tiller, a cook who discusses how African Americans fed tramps when white people didnÂ’t. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Tiller, Emma, Kindness |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Tiller, Emma
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Interview with Evelyn Finn
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Evelyn Finn, a seamstress and labor organizer, who organized garment workers in New Orleans and St. Louis. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Finn, Evelyn, labor |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Finn, Evelyn
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Interview with Frank and Rome Hentges
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Frank and Rome Hentges, retired clothing merchants, on stors closings in La Mars, IA. |
| Keywords: |
Farm Depression, Depressions -- 1929, Hentges, Rome, Henges, Frank, store closings |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Hentges, Rome
Hentges, Frank
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Interview with Frank Czerwonka
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Frank Czerwonka, a garbageman and hobo, on the code for homes that gave handouts. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Czerwonka, Frank, Kindness |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Czerwonka, Frank
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Interview with Fred Sweet
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Fred Sweet, a farmer, on farm auctions and advertisements. |
| Keywords: |
Farm auctions, Farm Depression, Depressions -- 1929, Sweet, Fred, advertisements |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Sweet, Fred
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Interview with Gardner C. Means
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Gardner C. Means, an economic advisor, on the New Deal and the difference between the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations. |
| Keywords: |
New Deal, Depressions -- 1929, Means, Gardner C., Hoover, Roosevelt |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Means, Gardner C.
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Interview with Hank Oettinger
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Hank Oettinger, a Chicago printer, on the New Deal and the celebration with WPA checks. |
| Keywords: |
New Deal, Depressions -- 1929, Oettinger, Hank, WPA checks |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Oettinger, Hank
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Interview with Harry Hartman
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Harry Hartman, a salesman, on poverty, repossession, and conditional sales contracts. |
| Keywords: |
Repossession, Poverty, Depressions -- 1929, Hartman, Harry, conditional sales contracts |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Hartman, Harry
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Interview with Harry Terrell
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Harry Terrell, a farmer, on farm depression in Des Moines IA, farm holidays, and repossession. |
| Keywords: |
Farm depression, Depressions -- 1929, Terrell, Harry, repossession |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Terrell, Harry
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Interview with Herman Schulmin
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Herman Schulmin who remembers shame and humiliation. |
| Keywords: |
shame, Depressions -- 1929, Schulmin, Herman, humiliation |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Schulmin, Herman
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Interview with Horace Cayton
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Horace Cayton, an African American, on poverty. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Cayton, Horace, Poverty |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Cayton, Horace
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Interview with Howard Worthington
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Howard Worthington on being a door-to-door salesman. |
| Keywords: |
shame, Depressions -- 1929, Worthington, Howard, door-to-door salesman |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Worthington, Howard
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Interview with James Farley
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with James Farley, a presidential campaign manager, on the New Deal and Roosevelt's reelection. |
| Keywords: |
New Deal, Depressions -- 1929, Farley, James, RooseveltÂ’s re-election |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Farley, James
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Interview with Jane Yoder
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Jane Yoder, a suburban housewife, on discrimination against WPA recipients. |
| Keywords: |
discrimination, Depressions -- 1929, Yoder, Jane |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Yoder, Jane
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Interview with Jerome Zerbe
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Jerome Zerbe, a society photographer who wasn't affected by the Depression and worked with the wealthy. |
| Keywords: |
Change in lifestyle, Depressions -- 1929, Zerbe, Jerome |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Zerbe, Jerome
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Interview with Jimmy Sheridan
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with veteran Jimmy Sheridan on the veterans' plight and the bonus marchers. |
| Keywords: |
Veteran plight, Depressions -- 1929, Sheridan, Jimmy, Bonus marchers |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Sheridan, Jimmy
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Interview with Joe Morrison
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Joe Morrison, a retired miner and labor organizer, who describes how depression hit miners earlier and lasted longer. |
| Keywords: |
Labor, Depressions -- 1929, Morrison, Joe, depression |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Morrison, Joe
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Interview with John Beecher
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with John Beecher, a New Deal worker, on migrant worker camps. |
| Keywords: |
Migrant worker camps, Depressions -- 1929, Beecher, John |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Beecher, John
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Interview with Jose Yglesias - Part 1
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Jose Yglesias, a novelist and journalist, on the wildcat strikes among cigar workers in Tampa. |
| Keywords: |
Labor, Depressions -- 1929, Yglesias, Jose, strikes |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Yglesias, Jose
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Interview with Jose Yglesias - Part 2
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Jose Yglesias, a novelist and journalist, on the wildcat strikes among cigar workers in Tampa. |
| Keywords: |
Labor, Depressions -- 1929, Yglesias, Jose, strikes |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Yglesias, Jose
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Interview with Jose Yglesias - Part 3
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Jose Yglesias, a novelist and journalist, on the wildcat strikes among cigar workers in Tampa. |
| Keywords: |
Labor, Depressions -- 1929, Yglesias, Jose, strikes |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Yglesias, Jose
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Interview with Judge Sam Heller - Part 1
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Judge Sam Heller who presided over the landlords & tenants court and evicted people. |
| Keywords: |
Poverty, Depressions -- 1929, Heller, Sam, evictions |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Heller, Sam
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Interview with Judge Sam Heller - Part 2
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Judge Sam Heller, who presided over the landlords and tenants court and issued evictions. |
| Keywords: |
Poverty, Depressions -- 1929, Heller, Sam, evictions |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Heller, Sam
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Interview with Justin McCarthy
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0n2-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Justin McCarthy, a journalist and Ford worker, on working at the Ford plant. |
| Keywords: |
labor, Depressions -- 1929, McCarthy, Justin, Ford plant |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
McCarthy, Justin
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Interview with Kitty McCullough
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Kitty McCullough, a retired seamstress who gave away her husbandÂ’s clothes during the Depression. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, McCullough, Kitty, Generosity |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
McCullough, Kitty
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Interview with Larry van Dusen
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File Name:
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Larry van Dusen, a retired labor organizer, on the shame and depression in poverty and the rootlessness of his generation. |
| Keywords: |
Shame, Depressions -- 1929, van Dusen, Larry, depression, poverty |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
van Dusen, Larry
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Interview with Lewis Andreas
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0n1-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Lewis Andreas, a pioneer in group medicine, on people at public health clinics. |
| Keywords: |
public health clinics, Change in lifestyle, Depressions -- 1929, Andreas, Lewis |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Andreas, Lewis
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Interview with Louis Banks
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terkel-a0a0l0-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Louis Banks, a hobo who describes how a white man saved him from alcoholism. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Banks, Louis, Kindness |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Banks, Louis
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Interview with Mary Owsley - Part 1
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0l3-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Mary Owsley, a migrant farm worker, wife of a WWI veteran, and "bonus marcher". |
| Keywords: |
Veteran plight, Depressions -- 1929, Owsley, Mary, bonus march |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Owsley, Mary
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Interview with Mary Owsley - Part 2
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0l4-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Mary Owsley, a migrant farm worker, wife of a WWI veteran, and "bonus marcher". |
| Keywords: |
Veteran plight, Depressions -- 1929, Owsley, Mary, bonus march |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Owsley, Mary
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Interview with Mary Owsley - Part 3
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0o3-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Mary Owsley, a welfare widow, on company stores. |
| Keywords: |
Labor, Depressions -- 1929, Owsley, Mary, Company stores |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Owsley, Mary
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Interview with Mary Owsley - Part 4
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0o9-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Mary Owsley, a farm worker who cleaned up after the dust storms in Oklahoma. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Owsley, Mary |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Owsley, Mary
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Interview with Max Naiman - Part 1
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0q1-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Max Naiman, a lawyer who represented the unemployed. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Naiman, Max, Poverty |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Naiman, Max
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Interview with Max Naiman - Part 2
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0q2-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Max Naiman, a lawyer who represented the unemployed. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Naiman, Max, Poverty |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Naiman, Max
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Interview with Mike Widman - Part 1
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0n3-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Mike Widman, a labor organizer, on the 1940 Ford strike in Detroit. |
| Keywords: |
labor, Depressions -- 1929, Widman, Mike, Ford strike of 1940 |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Widman, Mike
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Interview with Mike Widman - Part 2
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0n5-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Mike Widman, a labor organizer, on the 1940 Ford strike in Detroit. |
| Keywords: |
labor, Depressions -- 1929, Widman, Mike, Ford strike of 1940 |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Widman, Mike
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Interview with Mrs. Willie Jeffries
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0p9-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Mrs. Willie Jeffries, an 80 year old African American woman who worked in a relief station trying to get money to bury the dead. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Mrs. Willie Jeffries, Relief stations |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Jeffries, Willie
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Interview with Nick Shufro
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0r1-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Nick Shufro, a relief case worker, on mis-judgements and prying into otherÂ’s lives. |
| Keywords: |
shame, Depressions -- 1929, Shufro, Nick, misjudgements |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Shufro, Nick
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Interview with Orin Kelley
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0o7-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Orin Kelley, a cooperative worker, who demonstrated at farm auctions in La Mars, IA. |
| Keywords: |
Farm Depression, Depressions -- 1929, Kelley, Orin, farm auctions |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Kelley, Orin
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Interview with Pauline Kael
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0k5-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Pauline Kael, a film critic, on anger, violence, and the general strike in San Francisco. |
| Keywords: |
Anger, Depressions -- 1929, Kael, Pauline, Violence, Strikes |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Kael, Pauline
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Interview with Peggy Terry - Part 1
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0l5-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Peggy Terry, a migrant farm worker, on being unemployed, bread lines, soup kitchens, and homeless camps. |
| Keywords: |
soup kitchens, Bread lines, Unemployed, Depressions -- 1929, Terry, Peggy, homeless camps |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Terry, Peggy
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Interview with Peggy Terry - Part 2
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0l6-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Peggy Terry, a migrant farm worker, on being unemployed, bread lines, soup kitchens, and homeless camps. |
| Keywords: |
soup kitchens, Bread lines, Unemployed, Depressions -- 1929, Terry, Peggy, homeless camps |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Terry, Peggy
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Interview with Phyllis Lorimer
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0m2-c.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Phyllis Lorimer, a retired actress, on living with a chauffeur on NY Park Ave. |
| Keywords: |
Change in lifestyle, Depressions -- 1929, Lorimer, Phyllis |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Lorimer, Phyllis
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Interview with Raymond Moley
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0p4-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Raymond Moley about the New Deal. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Moley, Raymond |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Moley, Raymond
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Interview with Robin Langston
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0m0-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Robin Langston, a restaurant owner who had food, but no money, and took people in through spiritual guidance. |
| Keywords: |
Spiritual guidance, Depressions -- 1929, Langston, Robin |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Langston, Robin
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Interview with Sally Rand
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0n7-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Sally Rand, a fan dancer who danced nude because she had no money for costumes. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Rand, Sally, Poverty |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Rand, Sally
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Interview with Slim Collier
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0m1-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Slim Collier, a bartender, on Iowa during the Depression up through WWII. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Collier, Slim, Iowa |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Collier, Slim
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Interview with Tom Yoder
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0l8-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Tom Yoder, the son of a suburban housewife, on food shortages and the shame in poverty. |
| Keywords: |
Shame in poverty, Depressions -- 1929, Yoder, Tom, food shortages |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Yoder, Tom
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Interview with Tony Soma
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0o0-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Tony Soma, a NY speakeasy owner, on prohibition. |
| Keywords: |
prohibition, Depressions -- 1929, Soma, Tony |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Soma, Tony
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Interview with Virginia Durr
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0r3-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with Virginia Durr on shame and the fact that people blamed themselves and not the system. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Durr, Virginia, shame |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Durr, Virginia
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Interview with William Benton
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File Name:
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terkel-a0a0l7-b.rm
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| Date: |
1971 |
| Summary: |
Interview with William Benton, an advertising businessman who made money during the Depression. |
| Keywords: |
Depressions -- 1929, Benton, William, Success |
| Interviewer(s): |
Terkel, Studs
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| Interviewee(s): |
Benton, William
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