What little her mother had to say through her clamp of a mouth was to the point: Verna had made her own bed, and now she would have to lie in it.

NEWYORKER: Stone Mattress

It is now generally accepted that the blame for the Great Depression in 1930s America does not lie with the Wall Street crash of 1929 but the unreasonably tight monetary policy which followed it.

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