Lackawanna High School - Lackawannan Yearbook (Lackawanna, NY)

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in :sly 5,1 ' 5 E . e 5 E 5 i Z 5 E a 5 a f E I F 5 5 E 2 E : I Q F ' I 3 - . -1 ll, THE DECADE IN REVIEW 'Twas with heavy hearts and little hope that Americans looked forward to the future following t crash of '29, Savings lost, entire fortunes washed away, despondent, unemployed, many Americans foul little or no solace in the departure of the roaring twenties and the arrival of the unknown thirties Ahead rose the bleak, forbidding cliffs of the future, behind lay the glorious achievements, as well as t tragic disasters of the past. The decade that followed will go down in history as one of the most tumultuous periods in the 11 of the United States and the American people. For ten long years the people of this country had suffer the ravages of the worst depression in the history of this nation. But this same ten years brought glorio achievements as well as tragic disasters. America's star was still in the ascendancy. That ten years witness a virtual transformation of the entire sentiment of the people. Lost faith was restored, a new confiden established, and a greater spirit of cooperation instilled in the hearts of all. We knew where we had err and we meant to rectify our mistakes-we were out to recover. The course of these ten years was marked by a radical change in the policies of our governmei President Roosevelt's New Deal was inaugurated. At this time many exacting enactments were prom! gated with the intention of regaining the world economic status enjoyed prior to the panic of 1929. this fateful year were begun the National Recovery Act, the Civil Conservation Corps, and the Tenness Valley Authority. President Roosevelt also ameliorated the economic conditions of the past by resumi diplomatic relations with Russia and, most important of all, inaugurated our good neighbor policy towa Latin America. With a greeting to another new year, we step into 1934 with the reciprocal trade agreements wi foreign countries taking the limelight and the Tydings McDufIie Act bestowing provisional freedom the Phillipines. With the advent of 1935, the successful National Youth Administration was ushered in and following we have the Works Progress Administration and the Social Security Act. Here too, for the first time, w meet the Committee for Industrial Organization, which has become a potent rival of the American Fedex tion of Labor. In 1936, in a landslide vote, President Roosevelt was reelected and with him the continuation of l New Deal policies. Do you recall in 1937 the President's attempt to increase the number of Supreme Court justices fri nine to fifteen? In this same year the first Neutrality Act since the World War was passed. In 1938 Congress organized a Civil Air Authority and a Maritime Labor Board to supervise air a marine transportation respectively. And too, in this year began the payments to the unemployed specified in the Social Security Act. An unusual event ushered in 1939, the Erst of its kind in American history. The reigning Engl monarch made a tour of the United States in the interest of peace. However, fate made this a year fear, uncertainty, and finally invasion, forcing the United States to invoke once again its strict Neutral Law. Now, in 1940, there are events both of interest and of importance. President Roosevelt has sponsoi good will tours, trying once again to improve relations between the two Americas. Then too, we hz the interesting phenomenon of television finding its way into our homes and into the midst of otl phenomena of every day life. Our modern trend is toward the improving and strengthening of our political, social, and econor status and, most important of all at this time, the maintenance of peace with the world. Therefore, we leave the past and look forward to a new future, we can only wonder, What will the next deca bring? 1933-H. O. L. C. home loans given by government. - I .1 I Q Page 10

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