The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

690 Chapter 26 The New Deal: 1933–1941 whereby the efficiency—and thus the rates—of pri- vate power companies could be tested, i ...

murals, and utilizing their special skills in dozens of other ways. The cost of this program frightened Roosevelt— Hopkins spent ...

692 Chapter 26 The New Deal: 1933–1941 The president also hesitated to undertake projects that might compete with private enterp ...

Three Extremists: Long, Coughlin, and Townsend 693 “His mother’s watching him, and she won’t let him go too far, but I ain’t got ...

694 Chapter 26 The New Deal: 1933–1941 get money but not what to do with it.) Collectively they represented a threat to Roosevel ...

The Election of 1936 695 on corporate profits reflected the Brandeis group’s desire to penalize corporate giantism. Much of the ...

696 Chapter 26 The New Deal: 1933–1941 Roosevelt Tries to Undermine the Supreme Court On January 20, in his second inaugural add ...

The New Deal Winds Down 697 economy. What amounted to a revolution in the lives of wage earners had occurred. Aside from the obv ...

698 T he 1937 poster advertises the spread of electricity to rural parts of the nation, one of the many building programs of the ...

Women as New Dealers: The Network 699 prices and production, labor relations, old-age pen- sions, relief of the needy. By encour ...

700 Chapter 26 The New Deal: 1933–1941 Many of the early New Deal programs treated blacks as second-class citizens. Blacks were ...

A New Deal for Indians 701 Aside from the direct benefits, African Americans profited in other ways. Secretary of the Interior H ...

A miner greets the president. Franklin’s “first-class temperament” compensated for his “second-class intellect,” Justice Oliver ...

For a time Dr. Seuss—Theodor Seuss Geisel—drew political cartoons. This one, published in October, 1941, makes fun of isolationi ...

704 Chapter 26 The New Deal: 1933–1941 sides, thus removing the United States as an influence in the conflict. Although Roosevel ...

War Again in Asia and Europe 705 Germany, and when Mussolini invaded Albania, Roosevelt urged Congress to repeal the 1937 neutra ...

706 Chapter 26 The New Deal: 1933–1941 back. During the first five months of 1940 he asked Congress to appropriate over $4 billi ...

The Undeclared War 707 (^2) During the 1930s the Soviet Union took a far firmer stand against the fascists than any other power, ...

708 off the gas and electricity. His children, underfed and chilled, become sick. Braddock returns to Madison Square Garden, hat ...

709 Also, the fight was no slugfest. The New York Timesdubbed it “one of the worst heavyweight championship contests” in box- in ...