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“Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion?”

March 26 (King World News) – Danielle DiMartino Booth at Quill Intelligence:  Before he penned “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” E.Y. “Yip” Harburg wrote an anthem to the working man. Released just before Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to office as part of the 1932 musical Americana, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” became the best-selling song of the Great Depression.