T. Austin Brown on Nostr: Ok, internet sleuths, I have another depression era #history challenge for you. Going ...
Ok, internet sleuths, I have another depression era #history challenge for you. Going through the papers of Fiorello La Guardia, who prior to his mayorship of New York City was represented New York's 20th district in the House of Representatives, where he participated in some of the most thorough investigation of the frauds that led to the 1929 crash, I found a series of letters between Richard Whitney the later-disgraced president of the NYSE, and Wilbert Garrison, Esq. 1/?
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