It's the Depression, dearie...
On the 7th of April, 1932, future-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a radio speech addressing the many problems facing Depression-hit America at that time. Touching on a number of points (and laying the groundwork for what would presently become known as the "New Deal") he expounds on the plight of those hit hardest by the economic downturn: These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten , the unorganized but the indispensable units of economic power for plans like those of 1917 that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid. "Forgotten Man" (1934) Maynard Dixon Roosevelt himself had not personally coined the term Forgotten Man but he was the one who successfully made the label synonymous with the destitute masses of unemployed and homeless who were rapidly becoming a familiar sight in 1930s America. By the time Roosevelt took