Major Events of Presidency:
- Sheppard-Towner program ended
- Ernest Hemingway published A Farewell to Arms
- Stock market crash signals beginning of depression
- Agricultural Marketing Act passed
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff enacted
- "The Dust Bowl", a decade long drought, begins in the South and Midwest
- White workers in Atlanta organize Black Shirts to fight African-Americans for jobs
- Nisei form Japanese-American Citizens League
- John Dos Passos publishes U.S.A. trilogy
- Federal Reserve raises interest rates
- Depression spreads to Europe and worsens in United States
- Scottsboro boys arrested
- Communist Party stages hunger march in Washington
- Tobacco Road published by Erskine Caldwell
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation Established
- Farmers' Holiday Association formed in Iowa
- Bonus Marchers come to D.C.
- Banking crisis begins