Desperate times calls for desperate Measures” and in 1930 during the height of the great Depression, millions were desperate. With the crash of the stock market, millions our of works. Families took to the charity of others. There was even a special Column in the Chicago Tribune called “A Friend in Need” Where readers would write in hopes for even the smallest act of kindness. But when the Moroney family placed their ad in the paper, they didn’t expect what happened next.