Date (happened)
between 1929 and 1939
"the days of the deep Depression", told in The Pure in Heart (nid 1085)
Told / reported
1 March 1963
The Pure in Heart (nid 1085), telling 1085-0, told 1963-03-01
Persons
During the Depression, penniless in New York with four mouths to feed, he walked fifty blocks rather than spend a nickel on the subway, hoping a friend would give him a quarter for vegetables, and though hungry he could not take even a piece of lettuce from an open vegetable tray.