Prosperity.
Calvin Coolidge was in office as president from 1923 to the spring of 1929. In that period of the "Roaring Twenties," the country experienced great economic success -- in between the brief depression that followed World War I and the Great Depression that began with the stock market crash that occurred in the fall of 1929.
homelessness, and hunger to millions. THE DEPRESSION IN THE CITIES In cities across the country, people lost their jobs, were evicted from their homes and ended up in the streets. Some slept in parks or sewer pipes, wrapping themselves in newspapers to fend off the cold.