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Wed Jul 1

A summer of protest, unemployment and presidential politics – welcome to 1932

Written by James N. Gregory, Professor of History, University of Washington

The Bonus Army stages a demonstration at the empty Capitol on July 2, 1932. Underwood and Underwood, photographers; Library of Congress

An election looms. An unpopular president wrestles with historic unemployment rates. Demonstrations erupt in hundreds of locations. The president deploys Army units to suppress peaceful protests in the...

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