This issue of Survival Magazine from 1932 gives insight into the interest people had in Spiritualism curing the time period. Released during the global Great Depression, this magazine and the Spiritualism movement might have provided distraction and hope for hard times.
Survival Magazine: Incorporating Immortality and Survival cover, March 1932, Vol. 4, No. 26, Box 34, Eileen J. Garrett Parapsychology Foundation Collection, Collection 331, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD).