<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">As the twenties roared on, a market crash became inevitable. Why? And who should have stopped it?</span> </span></p>
<p>The Sunday afternoon broadcasts of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, once described as the "voice of God," were avidly followed by a radio audience of thirty to fifty million Americans during the Thirties.</p>
<p><span class="deck">For all his previous successes, President Herbert Hoover proved incapable of arresting the economic free fall of the Depression— or soothing the fears of a distressed nation.</span></p>
