The black-and-white print in the circular metal container that holds the oldest jumble of her family photos surprised Margo Bartlett. It was of the father she hardly knew and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt examining issues of The Vindicator at the Youngstown Public Library in 1939.
Bartlett, now of Delaware, Ohio, welcomes any information beyond what the caption states: “Mrs. Roosevelt and Laurence Bartlett, state supervisor, at the Youngstown Vindicator unit of the WPA Newspaper Index Project in the Youngstown Public Library, Oct. 27, 1939.”
“It’s news to me that my father was the state supervisor of the WPA Newspaper Index Project, though his master’s was in journalism,” said Bartlett, herself a columnist and writer with ThisWeek Community Newspapers in the Columbus area.
The end of that article asked the question,
What about global Capitalism: can it survive in its current form? and his answer is a neat outline of the history of capitalism since its inception through to today:
Pure global capitalism, such as it was, developed from around 1500 to the end of the 19th century.
It was
at the end of the 1920s.
It was
replaced over the course of the succeeding decades by a mixed economy, rooted in the pragmatic reforms of the American New Deal, the exigencies of the Second World War, and in reactions and adaptations to the competing systems of fascism and state socialism.
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Updated Jan 30, 2021, 11:43 pm IST
The ill-conceived demonetisation on November 8, 2016, rocked the economy off its haunches
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India is facing its worst economic crisis since 1991. It is in now in the 37th month of relentless regression in GDP growth. The fourth consecutive year of decline so far. The country is officially in a recession with the economy having contracted by 7.5 per cent in the second quarter. It was down by 23.9 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal.
Much before Covid-19, a Chinese export, ravaged the world, the Indian economy was already in a downward spiral. The ill-conceived demonetisation on November 8, 2016, rocked the economy off its haunches. It was followed by a shoddily implemented Goods and Service Tax (GST) regime The four fundamentals, namely, savings, consumption, investment and employment were already under stress. Nothing evidences it more than t
Norfolk Botanical Garden celebrates Black History Month with free admission Thursdays in February
As a way to honor the garden s humble beginnings, NBG is inviting the community to enjoy the garden for free on Thursdays in February.
Credit: Adriana De Alba Author: 13News Now Staff Updated: 2:37 PM EST January 29, 2021
NORFOLK, Va. Norfolk Botanical Garden is celebrating Black History Month by offering free admission on Thursdays in the month of February.
According to a news release, the garden is a Virginia Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
That rich history began in the late 1930s when 220 African American Works Progress Administration workers planted the first azaleas at the garden.