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One Third of a Nation is a Living Newspaper play produced by the Federal Theatre Project in 1938. Written by Arthur Arent from research by the editorial staff of the Federal Theatre Project, it focused on the problem of housing in the United States and the growth of slums in New York City.
...One Third of a Nation... is a 1939 American drama film directed by Dudley Murphy and written by Oliver H.P. Garrett and Dudley Murphy. The film stars Sylvia Sidney , Leif Erickson , Myron McCormick , Hiram Sherman , the future director Sidney Lumet and Muriel Hutchison.
“One Third of a Nation”: FDR’s Second Inaugural Address. Although President Franklin Delano Roosevelt neither came from the working and lower classes nor always acted in their interests, he did, at significant moments, speak for and to the “forgotten man.”
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope–because the Nation, seeing and understanding the injustice in it, proposes to paint it out.
Second Term (1937-1941) - The New Deal. "I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust." April 14, 1938. "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished."
Oct 10, 2019 · Franklin Roosevelt: 'I see on third of a nation ill housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished', Second Inaugural Address - 1937. 20 January 1937, Washington DC, USA. My fellow countrymen. When four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the Republic, single-minded in anxiety, stood in spirit here.
Dimensions. 76.2 cm × 61 cm (30.0 in × 24 in) Location. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Accession. 43.47.10. "One Third of a Nation" is a 1939 painting by American artist O. Louis Guglielmi. Done in oil and tempera on wood, the painting depicts an impoverished apartment block.
