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History Matters: The Bum as Con Artist

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History Matters reprints a 1929 newspaper article by journalist Tom Kromer, who contended that the beggar was a con man in the beginning of the Great Depression. It seems that Mr. Kromer became unemployed himself within the year, so perhaps his outlook changed.

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great depression, life during the great depression, beginning of the great depression, unemployment in the great depression
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