People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At the end of the Depression, people were perhaps looking for something to cheer themselves up. They fell in love with a dog and a little girl. It won't happen again.
As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
I've always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history.
It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.
What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.
In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.
When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.