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In , a great economic depression gripped America and the world, and from her homebase at Hull-House Jane Addams witnessed the devastation first hand. Even white-collar workers and professionals struggled. When the country went to the polls in November , the city of Chicago, for example, owed its public-school teachers more than five months of back pay.

Even charitable organizations experienced hardships, pressed to exhaustion and financial collapse in their efforts to provide relief for the constituencies that were increasingly reliant upon them for survival. It was a time of great desperation for the Hull-House neighborhood made up mostly of poor immigrants. For Jane Addams it was a time of great highs and lows.

She learned the news of the award from her bed at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where she had surgery to remove an ovarian cyst a few days later. In February and April of , she suffered two devastating personal losses in her inner circle, when Florence Kelley and Julia Lathrop died. In the month between their deaths, Addams published her tenth book.

Relief efforts in Chicago and an intellectual focus on world peace kept Jane Addams moving, despite grief and poor health. Addams drew a direct line between the economy and her ideals of world peace. In a radio interview in Chicago on June 5, , she said:. In that very year half the governments were bankrupt, millions of men and women were unemployed, with myriads of children under-nourished.

It will be increasingly difficult to defend such folly, not only to those who are facing starvation but to every one of us. In the summer, both the Republican and Democratic parties held their conventions in Chicago. On June 14, Addams rode in a peace parade that ended at the venue of the Republican National Convention, where she delivered remarks on foreign relations and world trade.