Oral history interview, [19--].

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Oral history interview, [19--].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70956133

Discusses the effect the depression had on Farr's business of 13 years, the election of 1932, the Works Progress Administration, and when things began to improve.

1 sound cassette.Transcript: 1 item.

Stephen F. Austin State University, East Texas Research Center

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Farr, C. L.

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Johnson, Bobby H., 1935-

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