Currency Shower – 1935 Connecticut

I wonder if this type of shower is still given to a future bride?

 

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This 1935 newspaper item was written during the Great Depression. The following are some fact about the Great Depression which will give you an insight into why a currency shower would be given.

1934

• Congress authorizes creation of the Federal Communications Commission, the National Mediation Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

• The economy turns around: GNP rises 7.7 percent, and unemployment falls to 21.7 percent. A long road to recovery begins.

• Sweden becomes the first nation to recover fully from the Great Depression. It has followed a policy of Keynesian deficit spending.

1935

• The Supreme Court declares the National Recovery Administration to be unconstitutional.

• Congress authorizes creation of the Works Progress Administration, the National Labor Relations Board and the Rural Electrification Administration.

• Congress passes the Banking Act of 1935, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act.

• Economic recovery continues: the GNP grows another 8.1 percent, and unemployment falls to 20.1 percent.

1936

• Top tax rate raised to 79 percent.

• Economic recovery continues: GNP grows a record 14.1 percent; unemployment falls to 16.9 percent.

[The above timeline fact come from: http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/connections_n2/great_depression.html%5D

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Information about the Currency Shower newspaper item:

Meriden, Conn
The Meriden Daily Journal

Wallingford Edition
May 7, 1935
Tuesday

See below this link:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0_JIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gwINAAAAIBAJ&pg=1031%2C5796765