If we can't find instances from before 1930 then we can't expect an AI trained on information we can find to know about instances before 1930.
If we can't find instances from before 1930 then we can't expect an AI trained on information we can find to know about instances before 1930.
It'd be trivial to check, if the dataset is known just grep for "Depression" and "Great Depression" and see what comes up, still don't think it's impossible the names were in use before someone decided to wrote to Congress about it.