Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933. Bank panics had occurred since 1929, and by 1933 than 9,000 banks had closed, with $2.5 billion in lost deposits. Millions of Americans lost their money....
I feel as young as I ever did.” Robert Benchley (1899-1945). Lately, anyone watching those Wall Street high wire artists demonstrate once again that gravity does indeed matter would understand the irony in Benchley’s...
