RobertBuzzanco-TheStruggleForAmerica-NunnMcginty(2019)

FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 187 In the 1930s, there was a serious “left” in the U.S.—many millions of Americans who ...

188 ChaPter^4 Artists of all kinds helped create an oppositional culture, one that led people to think about American life in di ...

FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 189 Guthrie was a political activist, a folk musician, and the inspiration for genera- t ...

190 ChaPter^4 saved their little homes/Others tell you ‘bout a stranger/That come to beg a meal/Underneath his napkin/Left a tho ...

FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 191 alarmed and spent more money on any state campaign up to that time to defeat Sinclai ...

192 ChaPter^4 ticular hated oil companies, successfully sued Standard Oil for unfair business practices, and even suggested if h ...

FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 193 state should be willing to run deficits, by borrowing money, in order to create prog ...

194 ChaPter^4 But the centerpiece of this second New Deal consisted of 3 new laws: the Social Security Act, the creation of the ...

FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 195 and labor would have money taken by the government [the so-called FICA tax still on ...

196 ChaPter^4 that time at $5 billiion in 1935 and $13 billion overall. An immense number of people benefitted from the numerous ...

FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 197 with work, and thus wages, so they could buy basic items and thereby survive the dep ...

198 ChaPter^4 noted, was not a Keynesian, and the huge debts accruing due to programs like the WPA were beginning to alarm him. ...

FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 199 keep us on. It would be enough if we weren’t in debt. We are in debt about $500. Eve ...

200 ChaPter^4 a slight bump in the economy. At the same time, he launched what some referred to as the “Third” New Deal, putting ...

FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 201 Deal and FDR, it is probably his approach to labor. After all, well over 10 million ...

202 ChaPter^4 She, like FDR, was a “patrician” reformer, one with a sense of obligation [noblesse oblige] because she or he ca ...

FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 203 unions located within the plant and organized by the bosses with no outside labor re ...

204 ChaPter^4 the senate on March 1st, 1934. It outlawed company unions, required employ- ers to recognize independent unions vo ...

FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 205 labor protests included workers from just about every type of political group. Roose ...

206 ChaPter^4 porate opposition was strong, this time labor succeeded, and FDR signed the new law, the National Labor Relati ...