Great Depression

WASHINGTON, June 17, 1930 (UP) -- President Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley "billion dollar" tariff bill today, thereby making it a law. Its new and higher duties on imports will go into effect at all ports of entry at midnight tonight.

WASHINGTON, April 13, 1932 (UP) --Democratic orators, loading party workers with Campaign ammunition, today heaped upon the Hoover administration the blame for the depression and outlined a program of economic rehabilitation for the party to espouse.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 1933 (UP) - President George Washington, whose 201st birthday anniversary is observed today, left to this country a tradition of sound economy which still pervades national thought on international debts and a balanced budget.

WASHINGTON, March 7, 1933 (UP) - The hope that the cloud of depression may soon be illumined by the sunlight of higher average commodity prices is tempered among the best informed trade economists here by a realization of some of the latent difficulties in the situation.

WASHINGTON, March 10, 1933 (UP) - The history of United States' finance in the 150 years between the "Valley Forge" of revolution and the "Valley Forge of Depression" strongly suggests the possibility of a prompt recuperation from the present banking and money crisis.

President Roosevelt approved plans calculated to take 2,000,000 persons off relief rolls throughout the country and put them to work on self sustaining basis.