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Pbs: Brother Can You Spare a Billion? The Story of Jesse H. Jones

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Companion website to the PBS documentary on Jesse H. Jones, real estate mogul, activist for the Red Cross, head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and Secretary of Commerce. Read about how he served his nation under President Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt to help bring the United States out of the Great Depression.

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herbert hoover
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public works, great depression, hoover's response, jesse jones, pbs, reconstruction finance corporation, banks during the great depression, reconstruction finance corporation, 1932
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