Transcription: Farmers invented penny auctions to beat back foreclosures. During auctions of property, a burly man with a stout club would sidle up to a serious bidder, put a big hand on his shoulder and say, that bid's a little high, ain't it? The $800 mortgage on Walter Crozier's Iowa farm was satisfied for $1.90. Horses and cows sold for a nickel apiece. An administrator for a government relief agency recounts this conversation with a distraught man. Maybe you think I like to come in here begging. I don't want no damn relief orders. I tell you work, work! I gotta have a job.
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