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The Empire State Building Opened During the Great Depression. Its Survival Story Holds a Lesson for Today

The Empire State Building Opened During the Great Depression. Its Survival Story Holds a Lesson for Today
Time
4/30/2021
Olivia B. Waxman
© Irving Browning The New York Historical Society/Getty Images
Tourists at Bryant Park looking through a telescope toward American Radiator Building and the Empire State Building, New York City, circa 1930s.
On May 1, 1931, an “awestruck” Franklin D. Roosevelt, then Governor of New York, spoke at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for what was then the world’s tallest building, the Empire State Building.
The new skyscraper, he said, was a symbol of “vision and faith”: vision, because only those who looked to the future could have imagined such a project, and faith, in believing the work would be “fully justified in the days to come.” ....

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Column: Bob Johnson, Orange County civil rights pioneer, dies at 88

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I figured Bob Johnson was just a kindly gadfly when we first met in 2009. After all, who requests a meeting with a reporter to talk about history specifically, Orange County history, a subject as obscure and unloved as the study of carpet?
He was tall and lanky, with a full head of white hair swept to the side and frameless spectacles. Johnson told me over lunch that he liked my articles about the hidden histories of O.C. and urged me to dig deeper. As a starting point, he handed me a book he co-edited, and might I review it? ....

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