Robert Stack Quotes
We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children.
Riders were required to read the Bible and pray ever day.
Under the Community Action Program, community groups were founded throughout the country. Some of these then tried to unseat the incumbent governors, mayors and city councilmen. Soon Governors were given veto powers on grants within their states.
She was actually convicted of inciting to riot for this statement even though there was no riot. The thought of tens of thousands of unemployed workers going from house to house, office to office, store to store, asking for work or food, and possibly taking food was thoroughly intimidating to most of the American population. Goldman served one year in prison.
This verse reflected the Great Depression of that time. Subsequently, as the American economy improved, it is rarely sung. In contemporary printed versions of the song, this verse is most frequently deleted.
Communications were quite primitive and out of desperation many jobless men would just walk the main road to the next community in hopes of finding work there.
He had an old used desk, with an old worn rug on the floor. Harry Hopkins was the special assistant to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt through the two great American crises, the Great Depression and World War II. Although he was a social worker with not a shred of political experience, Hopkins was originally selected by the President to operate the national relief program in the midst of the Great Depression. Soon he had spent more money than any human being in history without a taint of scandal. He had never been elected nor was he even ratified by the Senate. He also paid virtually no attention to members of Congress as he became the most successful manager in American Government history. Soon he became FDR’s most important aid. Then he and his wife actually moved into the White House and lived there with the Roosevelts and was a favorite of not only FDR but Eleanor Roosevelt as well.
Robert Stack was an American actor, sportsman, and television host. Known for his deep, commanding voice and presence, he appeared in over 40 feature films. He starred in the ABC-TV television series The Untouchables (1959–1963), for which he won the 1960 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series, and later hosted/narrated the true crime series Unsolved Mysteries (1987–2002). He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Written on the Wind (1956).
