Posted by:
Richard Foxe
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Date: March 12, 2014 06:36PM
"We who've lived through the Great Recession have an inkling about what it was like to live through the Depression, but only an inkling. The notion that one out of four Americans was unemployed is unimaginable. The image of long lines of unemployed and homeless people, standing in breadlines and at soup kitchens haunted movie audiences watching newsreels. The introduction of Shirley Temple (and at roughly the same time, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse) proved to be just the tonic the nation needed. 'It is a splendid thing that for just fifteen cents an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles,' [President Roosevelt] declared."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-runyon/goodnight-shirley_b_4788366.htmlThanks for reminding me of a great birthday gift for a friend's 4-year-old daughter.