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Showing posts with label Bus Econ 1930s Great Depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bus Econ 1930s Great Depression. Show all posts

Monday, July 23, 2012

1931 Maryland State Firemen’s Association Convention

By Kevin Dayhoff July 15, 2012 Westminster Patch


A lengthy July 17, 1931 newspaper article describes the Westminster Municipal Band and the Westminster Fire Department arriving home from participating in the Maryland State Firemen’s Association annual convention earlier that July “in a jubilant mood, as the band brought home $100 for the best band in line of parade…”

The history page from the Frostburg Maryland Fire Department reports that it was one of nine member fire companies that organized the first Maryland State Firemen's Association convention in Frederick in June 1893. 

In 1899 the convention was held in Westminster. A June 8, 1899 Baltimore Sun article, “Have A Hot Time In Westminster And Make Brave Show MANY DROP OUT OF RANKS Twenty-Six Companies And Forty Organizations In The Line Of The Great Parade” observed:

“…From 10,000 to 12,000 people were in Westminster for the opening of the seventh annual convention of the Maryland State Firemen's Association. From midnight until noon today trainloads of people arrived. By everyone it is conceded to have been the greatest day in the history of Westminster...” … http://westminster.patch.com/blog_posts/1931-maryland-state-firemens-association-convention

The 1931 newspaper article described the trip to Ocean City in the days long before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was built. “The firemen and band left Wednesday morning at 6:35 and arrived at Ocean City at 12:15 p.m. in a Blue Ridge line bus. They traveled by Green Spring Valley to Towson to Havre de Grace, Elkton, Dover to Ocean City, about 190 miles…

“Thursday passed off in sight-seeing with a pajama parade by the Westminster Band at 11 o'clock at night which was followed by several hundred people cheering as they passed down the board walk…” The band also gave concerts on the boardwalk and at the Del-Mar-Va Hotel and Hastings Hotel. 

One of the biggest attractions at the end of the convention is the grand parade which is described in great detail by the 1931 newspaper account, “On Friday morning at 11 o'clock the firemen's parade was the feature.

The parade was led by Gov. Ritchie, Comptroller William S. Gordy, and Mayor William W. McCabe. Twelve hundred firemen, representing 83 Maryland and Delaware fire units, paraded.” The parade extended over 2 miles long that year. 

According to the newspaper article, “Members of Westminster Fire Department taking part in the convention were Frank T. Shaeffer, Michael E. Walsh, Edw. O. Diffendal, Francis N. Keefer, J. Floyd Diffendal, Frank B. Dillard, James Pearre Wantz, Jr., Ralph Royer, Edward B. Orendorff, Wilbur Weller, J. H. Ryland and Claude Buckingham.”

“The $100 purse was a princely sum in 1931,” says local historian Jay Graybeal. “In this early year of the Depression, a pound of coffee cost 20 cents; a pound of peanut butter, 21 cents; and two cans of tomatoes were 15 cents.”
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

1936 presidential election: Landon in a Landslide: The Poll That Changed Polling

1936 presidential election: Landon in a Landslide: The Poll That Changed Polling

Retrieved January 10, 2012 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5168

The 1936 presidential election proved a decisive battle, not only in shaping the nation’s political future but for the future of opinion polling. The Literary Digest, the venerable magazine founded in 1890, had correctly predicted the outcomes of the 1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, and 1932 elections by conducting polls.

These polls were a lucrative venture for the magazine: readers liked them; newspapers played them up; and each “ballot” included a subscription blank.

The 1936 postal card poll claimed to have asked one fourth of the nation’s voters which candidate they intended to vote for. In Literary Digest's October 31 issue, based on more than 2,000,000 returned post cards, it issued its prediction: Republican presidential candidate Alfred Landon would win 57 percent of the popular vote and 370 electoral votes…http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5168

[20120120 Landon in a Landslide The Poll That Changed Polling]

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Sunday, December 04, 2011

David Grand - Westminster Patch: 'Brother, can you spare a dime?'


Compelling sociological and historical insights into the Great Depression by David Grand in Westminster Patch. Thanks. Kevin Dayhoff




Local Voices

Blog: 'Brother, can you spare a dime?'

That was the Depression-era anthem for the times. Written in 1932, that song still resonates loud and clear today, especially among those who find themselves, due to no fault of their own, in a daily struggle for mere survival.
And hard as it may be for the approximate 15 million Americans who are unemployed today (not including those working part-time jobs, or who’ve given up looking for jobs), or for the 46.2 million currently living below the official poverty line of $22,314 for a family of four, to imagine that there were even worst times in our nation’s history... http://westminster.patch.com/blog_posts/blog-brother-can-you-spare-a-dime#comments_list

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For more information on the 2011 Fall Maryland Municipal
League’s Fall Legislative Conference at the Cambridge Maryland Hyatt Regency
Chesapeake Bay, including a “Complete 2011 Fall Conference Information (.pdf)”
packet, visit the MML website at www.mdmunicipal.org.


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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Pennyland - Echoes of the Great Depression

Pennyland - Echoes of the Great Depression

November 27, 2008

Photo credit: Screenshot from http://www.pennyland.org/ and still from "Pennyland."

Feedback on “Penny Riordan, "Carroll Seniors," and the Great Depression:”

In addition to Ms. Penny Riordan’s excellent narrative on the Great Depression, Mr. Frank Thomas has called to our attention an excellent YouTube video – and website – featuring a soulful, insightful tune that really puts together a face and melody to a difficult time in American history…

Frank Thomas - http://www.pennyland.org/ - writes: “This is not meant as a political statement, but rather as an attempt to put a face on something that so often appears academic. If you don't or can't embed video on your blog, I would certainly value your opinion on this 5 minute film, as well as any help you might provide in sharing it with others. I thank you. In hard times artists, as much as anyone, need strong advocates to help share their work.”

Pennyland - Echoes of the Great Depression

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T9-iz40K6o

A poignant movie by Frank Thomas inspired by "Pennyland" a song written by his brother, Eddie Thomas featuring Depression Era photographs from the Library of Congress and audio excerpts from Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 inaugural address.



Links:

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2008/11/penny-riordan-carroll-seniors-and-great.html

penny.riordan@carrollcountytimes.com

http://www.carrollfamiliespub.com/

http://www.carrollseniorspub.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T9-iz40K6o

http://www.pennyland.org/

20081127 Pennyland Echoes of the Great Depression


Penny Riordan, "Carroll Seniors," and the Great Depression






Penny Riordan, "Carroll Seniors," and the Great Depression




November 27, 2008

For those who have missed the reporting of Penny Riordan, the former education reporter for in the Carroll County Times, do not despair.

She is still with the paper; however she has become the editor of the newspaper’s “Carroll Seniors” publication.

The November 2008 edition of the paper has a great deal of excellent content on the Great Depression, which has certainly been in the forefront of the news these days as the nation continues to wrangle with economic turmoil.

Unfortunately, the content is not online. So you will have to walk on your feet to a nearby hungry store and pick up a copy at a newsstand. How delightfully quaint.

I recently grabbed a copy and revisited the joys of actually holding a newspaper in my hand as I poured over the excellent writing… You should do likewise. It is some great reading…

Kevin Dayhoff November 27, 2008



“Carroll Seniors” “The Great Depression: those who lived the decade compare it to the current economic crisis”


“Banks shutting down.

Stock market troubles.

Unemployment.

In today’s economy, these phrases are used often. But they also conjure up memories of another economic crisis that has been bough up a lot more in recent months: the great depression.

But for those who lived through the great depression, things going on in the economy today just don’t quite compare.”


Carroll Seniors is a free publication distributed by the Carroll County Times. It is produced by Penny Riordan, the former education reporter for the Times. Contact her at penny.riordan@carrollcountytimes.com or 410-857-7898.


It is available at libraries and senior centers throughout the county, as well as restaurants and doctor’s offices, including:


Panera Bread, Eldersburg
McDougal’s Pharmacy, Eldersburg
McDonald’s, Hampstead
Miller’s Market, Manchester
Manchester Pharmacy, Manchester
Mount Airy Bowling Center, Mount Airy
McDonald’s, Mount Airy
Taneytown Pharmacy, Taneytown
Tony’s Café, Taneytown
Washington Heights Pharmacy, Westminster
Bullock’s Family Restaurant, Westminster
Baugher’s Restaurant, Westminster


Penny Riordan
Editor, Carroll Families and Carroll Seniors
Contributor, Healthy Balance magazine and the Synergy section
Carroll County Times
201 Railroad Ave.
Westminster, MD 21158
phone: 410-857-7898

penny.riordan@carrollcountytimes.com

http://www.carrollfamiliespub.com/

http://www.carrollseniorspub.com/

20081127 Penny Riordan Carroll Seniors and the Great Depression


Kevin Dayhoff Westgov.Net: Westminster Maryland Online