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Forty Years Ago: Oat Bias Kept Law and Order During Depression

By Irene Ambler

Editor’s Note — This article, first printed in the May 28, 1981 issue of the Breeze, captures a picture of law enforcement during the Great Depression.

Law and order was not so big a problem during the Great Depression era of the 1930’s. Possibly most folks had enough to do just to keep body and soul together and in trying to find something to put on the table for the next meal…