The Whittaker Saga

As 1934 rolls around, the mood in the Sinclair-Lemotte house is a bit hampered by the events of the previous year, but everyone still tries to remember the things they are grateful for. Their five healthy children, each other, the house they have, the animals on the farm. And life is better for them than it is for many others. The depression still holds the countryside hostage, and severe dust storms across the midwest, eroding away the very soil in the ground and making farms essentially worthless, only makes matters worse as a new waive of migrants arrive looking for work after loosing everything they had. One evening Anna sees a random stranger going through the trash outside looking for food. Something must be done to help people! Luckily the New Deal has started, and the government try to help with government funded projects, work programs, and relief funds. While Nash is mostly keeping an eye on the many banking reforms, hoping it will stabilize the market enough to give him ...

 As 1933 begins, there is worrying news from Germany as the papers write: NEW CHANCELLOR CELECTED IN GERMANY Party Leader Forms Government Today In Berlin Berlin, Jan. 30. At 43, Hitler, attained the ambition of his political career today, by becoming chancellor of Germany. Shortly after his appointment, the selected cabinet, including several well known conservatives, was sworn in by President von Hindenburg. To temper the new chancellor's dictatorial ambitions, von Hindenburg insisted on a cabinet that contains but three of his party members. But behind the man stand 600 000 storm troopers that he is expected to insist on making a national militia. Tonight, at his orders, the storm troopers staged a gigantic torchlight parade. The nationwide frenzy of fear and enthusiasm that flashed through Germany on his appointment was comparable only to that of August 1914, the opening of the World War. Anna is alarmed. She has followed news from Europe closely since the war, and is stil...