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I cannot truthfully say whether or not the depression had any ill effect on the Devereaux family fortune. Maxwell could have lost ninety percent of his money and still remained a very rich man. The depression did not seem to bother the Devereaux family. Others were not so lucky.
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The Great Depression hit the South hard. As farmers began to recover from the boll weevil invasion, the stock market crashed. Georgia was also experiencing one of the most severe droughts in the state's history. Many, many people suffered devastating, life altering changes, dreadful catastrophic hardships, and even death.
It wasn't that Charlotte and Maxwell's daughter, Millicent was unaware of the growing poverty that ravaged her home state of Georgia. She was simply untouched by it. Her "raison d'être" during the summer and early fall of 1931 was the planning and execution of her 21st birthday celebration on October 31st. This party would mark the debut of her first home away from her parents' house in Atlanta.
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It had taken a lot of effort over the past six months to get the mansion ready for its Halloween debut. Millicent had spent every waking moment since her parents had given her the keys to the castle, planning and decorating, decorating and planning.
