All posts tagged "Great Depression"
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12.4K21ConnecticutHow the Italian Immigrants Came to New England
Italian immigrants put their stamp on New England as indelibly as any Puritan. New England, in fact, is the most Italian region...
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31.8K3ConnecticutHercules Had It Easy Compared to the Great 1938 Hurricane Tree Cleanup
The Great 1938 Hurricane blew down so many trees that paper mills were still processing them nine years later. Trees downed by...
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3.7K1MaineEight-Year-Old Carleton Nicholls Stands Up For Freedom of Speech … and Sits Down
In October of 1935, Lynn, Mass., schools expelled eight-year-old Carleton Nicholls for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag,...
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82.5K25Arts and LeisureHow Portuguese Immigrants Came to New England
In 1915, four Madeiran men organized a feast at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in New Bedford, Mass. They did it...
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Seabiscuit Takes His First Step to Fame at Suffolk Downs
Seabiscuit, the knock-kneed little horse with the big heart, met the man who made him a champion at Suffolk Downs Race Course...
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19.2K15Business and LaborKatharine Gibbs Invents the Modern Professional Secretary
Katharine Gibbs in 1911 founded her first secretarial school in Providence after learning the hard way that inherited wealth is an uncertain...
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38.5K32MassachusettsThe Orphan Train and the Children Who Rode Them
In 1926, a four-year-old orphan named Lorraine Williams and 13 other children were scrubbed, dressed in new clothes and put onto an...
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8.0K6Crime and ScandalThe Brady Gang in Bangor – The End of the Road for America’s Most Wanted
In October 1937, the FBI’s public enemy number one – bankrobber and murderer Al Brady – came to Bangor, Maine, with his...
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19.4K5New HampshireThe Tragic Love Affair of Former NH Gov. John Winant and Sarah Churchill
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Winant carried on a secret love affair with Winston Churchill’s favorite daughter during World War II. It...
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5.8K9Flashback PhotosFranklin Roosevelt Celebrates Franksgiving, er, Thanksgiving
On Aug. 14, 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt invented a new holiday: Franksgiving. He did it by declaring Thanksgiving would be celebrated on the...
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