WITNESSES

 Frances Perkins, U.S. Secretary of Labor

John J. Raskob, former business executive for General Motors and DuPont, former Democratic National Committee Chairman

Willis C. Hawley, former U.S. Representative from Oregon (Republican), co-sponsor of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (1930)

Montgomery J. Phipps, Stockbroker *

* Phipps is a fictionalized character based loosely on several real life figures such as Michael J. Meehan and Charles E. Mitchell. The image of Phipps is actually Mitchell.

Rexford G. Tugwell, agricultural economist, Undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, member of the "Brain Trust"

J. P. Morgan, Jr., banker and philanthropist, President of J. P. Morgan & Co.

J. Rupert Ellison, III, economist *


* Ellison is a fictionalized character largely based on the works of Thorstein Veblen, who died in 1929. The picture of Ellison is actually Veblen.

Hugh Hammond Bennett, soil surveyor, Director of the Soil Erosion Service in the U.S. Department of Interior

Rev. Elijah Cooper, church leader *

* Cooper is a fictionalized character loosely based on William Bell Riley and Clarence Macartney as well as others. The picture of Cooper is actually William Bell Riley. 

  Herbert Hoover, former President of the United States
 

Emma Goldman, activist, author and self-avowed anarchist.