Report Outline
Elections Results and Roosevelt's Second Term
The New Deal and Regulation of Industry
Regulatory Proposals in Congress
Constitutional Amendment and the New Deal
Elections Results and Roosevelt's Second Term
President's Statement of New Deal's Objectives
The overwhelming endorsement given President Roosevelt at the I polls on November 3 has revived discussion of the possibility that the administration will make a renewed effort in the President's second term to attain the objectives sought through the invalidated National Industrial Recovery Act, Supported by a general but decisive popular ratification of New Deal aims, and commanding majorities in both houses of Congress unprecedented since Reconstruction days, the administration, it is urged, is now in a position of such great prestige as to warrant expectations that it might, successfully sponsor not only a legislative program reinstituting certain controls over industry but a constitutional amendment clarifying and enhancing federal powers in the field of industrial regulation. These questions did not become a clear-cut issue in the recent political campaign. At Madison Square Garden on October 29, Governor Landon challenged the President to state clearly his intentions with respect to the Constitution and the principles of the National Recovery Act and the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Two days later at the same place, Roosevelt gave his answer:
Of course, we will continue to seek to improve working; conditions for the workers of America –to reduce hours over-long, to increase wages that spell starvation, to end the labor of children, to wipe out sweat-shops. Of course, we will continue every effort to end monopoly in business, to support collective bargaining;, to stop unfair competition, to abolish dishonorable trade practices. For all these we have only just begun to fight. …
Of course, we will continue our efforts in behalf of the farmers of America. With their continued cooperation we will do all in our power to end the piling up of huge surpluses which spoiled ruinous prices for their crops. We will persist in successful action for better land use, for reforestation, for the conservation of water all the way from its source to the sea, for drought and flood control, for better marketing facilities for farm commodities, for a definite reduction of farm tenancy, for encouragement of farmer cooperatives, for crop insurance and a stable food supply. For all these we have only just begun to fight. |
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New Deal, Great Depression, and Economic Recovery |
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Feb. 20, 2009 |
Public-Works Projects |
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Jul. 25, 1986 |
New Deal for the Family |
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Apr. 04, 1973 |
Future of Social Programs |
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Nov. 18, 1944 |
Postwar Public Works |
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Apr. 12, 1941 |
Public Works in the Post-Emergency Period |
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Mar. 08, 1940 |
Integration of Utility Systems |
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Feb. 26, 1938 |
The Permanent Problem of Relief |
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Jun. 08, 1937 |
Experiments in Price Control |
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Jan. 05, 1937 |
Credit Policy and Control of Recovery |
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Nov. 27, 1936 |
New Deal Aims and the Constitution |
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Oct. 16, 1936 |
Father Coughlin vs. the Federal Reserve System |
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Sep. 25, 1936 |
Roosevelt Policies in Practice |
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Feb. 11, 1936 |
Conditional Grants to the States |
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Dec. 11, 1935 |
Capital Goods Industries and Recovery |
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Sep. 25, 1935 |
Unemployment Relief Under Roosevelt |
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Jul. 17, 1935 |
The R.F.C. Under Hoover and Roosevelt |
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Jul. 03, 1935 |
Six Months of the Second New Deal Congress |
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Jun. 04, 1935 |
The Supreme Court and the New Deal |
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Mar. 05, 1935 |
Public Works and Work Relief |
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Feb. 16, 1935 |
Organized Labor and the New Deal |
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Dec. 04, 1934 |
Rural Electrification and Power Rates |
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Oct. 26, 1934 |
Federal Relief Programs and Policies |
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Jul. 25, 1934 |
Distribution of Federal Emergency Expenditures |
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Jul. 17, 1934 |
Debt, Credit, and Recovery |
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May 25, 1934 |
The New Deal in the Courts |
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Mar. 27, 1934 |
Construction and Economic Recovery |
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Mar. 19, 1934 |
Price Controls Under N.R.A. |
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Feb. 15, 1934 |
Federal Promotion of State Unemployment Insurance |
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Jan. 10, 1934 |
Government and Business After the Depression |
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Jan. 02, 1934 |
The Adjustment of Municipal Debts |
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Dec. 12, 1933 |
The Machine and the Recovery Program |
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Dec. 05, 1933 |
Winter Relief, 1933–1934 |
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Nov. 11, 1933 |
Power Policies of the Roosevelt Administration |
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Oct. 28, 1933 |
Buying Power under the Recovery Program |
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Oct. 19, 1933 |
Land Settlement for the Unemployed |
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Sep. 20, 1933 |
The Capital Market and the Securities Act |
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Jul. 18, 1933 |
Public Works and National Recovery |
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Jul. 01, 1933 |
The Plan for National Industrial Control |
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May 03, 1933 |
Economic Readjustments Essential to Prosperity |
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Apr. 26, 1933 |
Government Subsidies to Private Industry |
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Mar. 25, 1933 |
Rehabilitation of the Unemployed |
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Feb. 17, 1933 |
Federal Cooperation in Unemployment Relief |
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Nov. 16, 1932 |
Systems of Unemployment Compensation |
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Nov. 09, 1932 |
Policies of the New Administration |
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Aug. 18, 1932 |
Emergency Relief Construction and Self-Liquidating Projects |
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Dec. 28, 1931 |
Relief of Unemployment |
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Aug. 01, 1931 |
National Economic Planning |
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Jul. 20, 1931 |
Dividends and Wages in Periods of Depression |
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Feb. 19, 1931 |
Insurance Against Unemployment |
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Jan. 19, 1931 |
Business Failures and Bankruptcy Administration |
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Jan. 01, 1931 |
Federal Subsidies to the States |
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Dec. 08, 1930 |
Federal Relief of Economic Distress |
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Sep. 25, 1930 |
The Extent of Unemployment |
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May 16, 1930 |
Politics and Depressions |
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Dec. 20, 1929 |
The Federal Public Works Program |
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Jun. 08, 1929 |
The Federal Reserve System and Stock Speculation |
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Apr. 14, 1928 |
The Federal Reserve System and Price Stabilization |
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Feb. 25, 1928 |
The Federal Reserve System and Brokers' Loans |
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