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Great Depression Syndicate content

Liz Smith

Liz Smith | 09/20/2009 1:00 am

Liz Smith on Mile-Wide Class Differences

Heck, I grew up in the South just before the Great Depression

The Greatest Depression | 03/10/2009 2:00 pm

Majority of Americans See Next '30s-Era Depression

Fifty-three percent of Americans aren’t so optimistic about the nation’s financial future
By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Money | 02/27/2009 9:55 am

Great Depression Cooking With Clara Cannucciari (Video)

Clara Cannucciari, 93, survived the first Depression; now hosts online cooking show to teach simple, inexpensive recipes
By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Money | 02/26/2009 2:15 pm

Liz Smith on NYPost Exit: 'I'm Just Part of the Great American Experiment and Second Big Depression' (Video)

Liz, 86, on CNN: ‘I already lived through the first one. [Laughing] I was a child in the ’30s. So, I’m prepared for this’
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Liz Smith

Liz Smith | 01/30/2009 2:10 pm

Liz Smith: Could the Oscars Rescue Us? (Video)

In the Great Depression of the ’30s, movies were all important. Maybe they will be again …
Liz Smith

Liz Smith | 01/11/2009 11:00 pm

Liz Smith: This Depression Happened Overnight

I lived through the Great Depression of the ’30s …
Liz Smith

Liz Smith | 12/23/2008 11:00 pm

Santa Claus? Yes, Says Liz Smith

At 85 years old, she still beleives in the man in the red suit

Politics | 11/19/2008 10:00 am

Life Magazine Archives Available on Google (Photos)

Ten million images from Life magazine have become immortalized on Google and are now able to be purchased … From the Kennedys with baby Caroline to Neil Armstrong photographing a fellow astronaut on the moon — here are some iconic photos
Joan Juliet Buck

Joan Juliet Buck | 10/08/2008 12:00 am

Joan Juliet Buck's Parents Rode the Waves

Times got good. Then they got bad again. Then they got almost good …
Mary Wells

Mary Wells | 10/08/2008 12:00 am

What Mary Wells Learned From the Great Depression

They didn’t explain the Depression as an unusual and desperate heartbreaking experience, a story with a moral to pass on …
Cynthia McFadden

Cynthia McFadden | 10/08/2008 12:00 am

Cynthia McFadden's 'Just-in-Case' Food Supply

My parents both lived through the Depression. While I wasn’t born until the late ’50s, that legacy was alive and well in our house in Auburn, ME
Candice Bergen

Candice Bergen | 10/08/2008 12:00 am

Candice Bergen: The View From a Place of Such Plenty

Growing up in Hollywood, the Depression had little reality for me …

Question of the Day | 10/08/2008 12:00 am

Do your families have any stories of surviving the Great Depression and, if so, how did they influence you?

Whoopi Goldberg, Candice Bergen, Liz Smith, Cynthia McFadden, Mary Wells, Joan Ganz Cooney and Joan Juliet Buck share the lessons learned from the Great Depression
Liz Smith

Liz Smith | 10/08/2008 12:00 am

Liz Smith: 'The Low Blow of Wall Street Will Bring the Nation to Its Moral Senses'

Maybe we’ll begin to concentrate on education, science and health and less on jazzy cars, celebrity worship …
Joan Ganz Cooney

Joan Ganz Cooney | 10/08/2008 12:00 am

Joan Ganz Cooney: Except for a Few Hate Mongers, We Were a United Country

I was a child during the Great Depression …

Politics | 09/25/2008 12:20 pm

Palin: Without Bailout, U.S. May Be Headed Toward Another Great Depression (Video)

In interview with Katie Couric, Alaska governor says Congress needs to find bipartisan solution to Wall Street crisis
By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Money | 09/16/2008 10:30 am

Amid Lehman Crisis, AIG, Stock Plummets, Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Paterson Send Mixed Messages

In the wake of Lehman Brother’s meltdown, with the constant worry that the nation is one AIG collapse away from facing another Great Depression, New York Gov. Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg deliver conflicting messages of fear and hope
By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Reader Forum | 09/14/2008 4:45 pm

Reader Forum on The Lehman Brothers Melt-down: UPDATE 9/15, 8:30

For wowOwow-ers interested in discussing the weekend’s dramatic events on Wall Street  here’s a forum thread we started yesterday afternoon.