3-023-354 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

Unemployed People Lying On a Bench, 1932. USA. 'Beneath the pinnacles [of wealth]...an army of idle millions. Nearly 1 in 4 of all the working population in search of a job. For these no demands for higher wages, just pleas for any kind of work. But there was no work for the having'. From "Time To Remember - Around the Corner", 1932 (Reel 2); diary of events in 1932 in the United States of America - Franklin Roosevelt becomes the President.