I f there's one thing that tomato soup cake proves, it's that come Hades, high water, or even the Great Depression and a ...

The New York Stock Exchange crashed on October 24, 1929, known as Black Thursday. It was the first of many financial calamities that created the most notorious period of economic ...

(The soup kitchens were shut down a couple of years later, replaced by city-funded meal tickets to local restaurants.) The U.S. Census reported that, by April, Milwaukee's unemployed totaled 15,916.