RobertBuzzanco-TheStruggleForAmerica-NunnMcginty(2019)
The ‘20s: Culture, Consumption, and Crash 167 Gulf, Atlantic Refining, Sinclair, and Standard Oil of Indiana. Given the eco- nom ...
168 ChaPter 3 own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of hig ...
169 c haPter 4 FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power H erbert Hoover, fairly or not, received blame for the Great Depression, ...
170 ChaPter^4 job was to rescue it without resorting to an alternative economic or political system, and also make it stronger a ...
FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 171 with average grades in 1904, and after that he attended law school at Columbia and p ...
172 ChaPter^4 women, the poor, and children better. But liberalism, as noted, was rooted firmly within Capitalism and private ow ...
FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 173 the Bonus aRMy Roosevelt faced a monumental task in dealing with the depression, but ...
174 ChaPter^4 Still, Americans felt strongly that the “Bonus Army” vets who had risked their lives in the Great War deserved to ...
FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 175 United States Government has been met, swiftly and firmly.” Hoover so badly botched ...
176 ChaPter^4 were homeless, countless Americans were hungry and either had to eat at charity kitchens or look for food in garba ...
FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 177 nomic goal—to help the businesses wrecked by the depression rebuild, to get factorie ...
178 ChaPter^4 also called a “Bank Holiday” to shut them down so depositors could not make a run on them and leave their vaults e ...
FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 179 consumption. The CCC did provide relief to millions, but not at levels ade- quate to ...
180 ChaPter^4 and maximum hours requirements, and established the right of workers to create unions in Section 7a, it was mor ...
FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 181 of business, where they were usually bought up by the bigger firms. Similarly, a New ...
182 ChaPter^4 northerners, who owned over half of southern land, got government aid, not the actual farmers in the South and W ...
FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 183 government if their banks failed for up to $5000. Glass-Steagall helped bank deposit ...
184 ChaPter^4 laws were necessary not to punish bankers, but to keep Wall Street stable and keep Capitalism safe. Still, many ba ...
FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 185 children, depended on relief for food and shelter; 70 percent lived on incomes of le ...
186 ChaPter^4 ily and my father does not have enough money to get him a bottle of Beer. He is a democrat and did all he could to ...
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