The Great Depression (1929-1939 ... organized food drives to help struggling families. Community kitchens and soup lines were also common, where women volunteered to help prepare and serve ...

Men eating bread and soup at a breadline during The Great Depression in the USA in 1929. Breadlines were places for people in extreme poverty, who did not have the money to buy food for themselves ...

He cultivated good public relations by donating money to charity, and opening soup kitchens during the Depression. Throughout the 1920s mobsters engaged in street battles over issues of control.