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The growing conservative nature of W.Va.
It was the days of the booming Twenties. My father, a farm boy with an 8th grade education, had become a loan officer in the Security Bank and Trust Co. He prospered. He had a newly built house, a Packard car and golf clubs. Came 1929 and the market crash, the bank holiday and the subsequent Great Depression, he was back at square one. When Hoover ran against FDR, I am certain my father voted for Hoover. But I suspect my mother voted for Roosevelt.
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The growing conservative nature of W.Va.
It was the days of the booming Twenties. My father, a farm boy with an 8th grade education, had become a loan officer in the Security Bank and Trust Co. He prospered. He had a newly built house, a Packard car and golf clubs. Came 1929 and the market crash, the bank holiday and the subsequent Great Depression, he was back at square one. When Hoover ran against FDR, I am certain my father voted for Hoover. But I suspect my mother voted for Roosevelt.
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