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“when the country … belts tightened over hollow bellies,
idle hands cracked and chapped with the cold of that coldest March day of 1932,
started marching from Detroit to Dearborn … all they could think about at Ford’s was machineguns.
The country was sound, but they mowed the marchers down.”
They shot four of them dead.
— John Dos Passos, The Big Money (1933)
#books #fiction #history #labor
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