The Utah convention shilly-shallied, though it had a mandate to ratify since November, because it wanted to make sure it would be the deciding thirty-sixth (Kobler, 1973, 353).
By this time, the nation had a different concern to address, the Great Depression that followed the collapse of the stock market in 1929, and immediately after the crash, the economy entered a form of free-fall (Heilbroner, 1993, 102-103). The Great Depression in the 1930s was a time of world economic disorder. Had the nations of the world understood what was happening better, they might have avoided the coming war with a more sound economic policy. The Depression had different effects in different countries, but the forces unleashed produced political as well as economic dislocation and tension. The Great Depression started with the stock market crash in 1929. This came after a period of massive buying of stocks as people rushed to get in on the economic boom of the late 1920s. John Kenneth Galbraith says of the time that while this was a prosperous period, i
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