THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Geroge Wallace
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Lester Maddux
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Orval Faubus
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Huey Long
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Detailed explanation-1: -Robert A. Taft, powerful Republican Senator from Ohio from 1939 to 1953. Taft was the leader of the Republican Party’s conservative wing; he consistently denounced the New Deal as “socialism” and argued that it harmed America’s business interests and gave ever-greater control to the central government in Washington.
Detailed explanation-2: -Outside the administration prominent supporters who turned against Roosevelt included journalists Walter Lippmann and Frank Kent. Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst was a major Roosevelt supporter in 1932, but turned his nationwide media chain against Roosevelt starting in 1934.
Detailed explanation-3: -The New Deal included new constraints and safeguards on the banking industry and efforts to re-inflate the economy after prices had fallen sharply. New Deal programs included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Detailed explanation-4: -The fireside chats were a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944.