Bruno with the coveted Horatio Alger Award. symbolic of "ragstoriches" American success stories. The life of Joe Bruno is the quintessential American success story. and I would like to recognize his achievement today because of my admiration for Mr. Bruno and because I would like to debunk the current myth that the American dream is dead. The son of an immigrant from Italy. Joe Bruno opened his first grocery store during one of the most unpropitious moments in American historyin the middle of the Great Depressionyet he was undaunted by the comments of cynics who. like todays prophets of pessimism. foresaw nothing but darkness and decline for the economy. Mr.
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