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President Herbert Hoover

1929 - President Herbert Hoover commissioned a national-level study to do for the entire nation what Middletown had done for Muncie, Indiana. Ogburn was chosen as the Research Director. Robert Lynd wrote the chapter on consumption. 

1933 - The giant social science project commissioned by President Hoover is published as Recent Social Trends in the United States.

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