Panic in the Loop reveals widespread fraud and insider abuse by bankers – and the complicity of corrupt politicians – that caused the Chicago banking debacle of 1932.
Panic in Paradise is a comprehensive study of bank failures during the Florida land boom of the mid-1920s, during the years preceding the stock market crash of 1929.
Asking the superintendent to act
(Tribune archive photo)
A crowd of children and the unemployed marched to the office of Chicago Public Schools Superintendent William Bogan demanding free food in March 1932. During the Great Depression, teachers worked at reduced wages or went without pay in part because people were unable to pay their taxes.
Panic in Paradise is a comprehensive study of bank failures during the Florida land boom of the mid-1920s, during the years preceding the stock market crash of 1929.
Panic in the Loop reveals widespread fraud and insider abuse by bankers – and the complicity of corrupt politicians – that caused the Chicago banking debacle of 1932.
Raymond Vickers
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