EPISODE · Jan 21, 2022 · 19 MIN
Ladies Section
from As The Money Burns · host Nicki Woodard
While some seem to have plenty of food and money, the rising unemployment leaves many without. One wealthy couple sets up a place where the poor can get a hot meal.EF Hutton ventures down into Hell’s Kitchen to check on the soup kitchen sponsored by him and his wife Marjorie Merriweather Post. Historical section covers Al Capone’s soup kitchen, and a news update about the starving Mahatma Gandhi in British Occupied India.Other people and subjects include: January 1931, Salvation Army, Post Cereal fortune, Birds Eye frozen foods, General Mills, tenor Rafaelo Diaz, food insecurity, and the Great Depression effect on grandparents.Extra Notes / Call to Action:Nicki Woodard provided anecdotal research for: https://inculture.microsoft.com/arts/ancient-olympia-common-grounds/--Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 1 Music: Organ Grinder’s Song by Jack Payne, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 2 Music: Sing, Baby, Sing / You Turned The Tables On Me by Carroll Gibbons, Album The Age of Style – Hits from the 30sSection 3 Music: You by Carroll Gibbons, Album The Age of Style – Hits from the 30sEnd Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
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While some seem to have plenty of food and money, the rising unemployment leaves many without. One wealthy couple sets up a place where the poor can get a hot meal. EF Hutton ventures down into Hell’s Kitchen to check on the soup kitchen sponsored by him and his wife Marjorie Merriweather Post. Historical section covers Al Capone’s soup kitchen, and a news update about the starving Mahatma Gandhi in British Occupied India. Other people and subjects include: January 1931, Salvation Army, Post Cereal fortune, Birds Eye frozen foods, General Mills, tenor Rafaelo Diaz, food insecurity, and the Great Depression effect on grandparents. Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
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