Eras: 1929–1941

1929–1941

Fireside Chat on the Recession

Source: “Fireside Chat,” April 14, 1938. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15628. . . . Five years ago we faced a very serious

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1929–1941

Detroit Digs In

Source: The Nation 144:3 (January 16, 1937), pp. 64-66. Available online from The Social Welfare History Project (Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries). http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/detroit-digs-1937/ The future of the Committee for Industrial Organization,

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1929–1941

This Challenge to Liberty

Source: Herbert Hoover, Addresses Upon the American Road, 1933-1938 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938), p. 216 – 227. Available online from Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/0ljd. . . .

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1929–1941

A Third Party

Source: Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. II, No. 20 (July 1, 1936), pp. 613. . . . . In the autumn of 1932, it was my privilege to address

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1929–1941

Betrayal of the Democratic Party

Source: “The Facts in the Case,” Speech of Alfred E. Smith at the American Liberty League Dinner, Washington, D.C., January 25, 1936, Jouett Shouse Collection, (American Liberty League Pamphlets), Kentucky

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1929–1941

United States v. Butler

Source: Online from “FDR and the Supreme Court,” The New Deal Network (Columbia University: Institute for Learning Technologies), There should be no misunderstanding as to the function of this court

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1929–1941

Again the Covered Wagon

Source: Survey Graphic 24:7 (July 1935), p. 348. Vast clouds of dust rise and roll across the Great Plains, obscuring the lives of people, blighting homes, hampering traffic, drifting eastward

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1929–1941

Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States

Source: Online from “FDR and the Supreme Court,” The New Deal Network (Columbia University: Institute for Learning Technologies), http://newdeal.feri.org/court/295US495.htm. First. Two preliminary points are stressed by the government with respect

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