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United States—History—1919–1933 United States—History—1933–1945 Depressions—1929—United States New Deal, 1933–1939 United States—Economic conditions—1918–1945 United States—Social conditions—1933–1945 Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano), 1882–1945 Depressions—1929—Europe Europe—Economic conditions—1918–1945 I Title E806.R38 2008 973.91—dc22 2007030523 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Contents Acknowledgments viii List of Illustrations ix Introduction 1 The World in Debt The Hoover Years 23 Americans in the Depression 38 Reflation and Relief 56 Managing Farm and Factory 72 Countervailing Power 87 The End of the Beginning 105 Conclusion 126 Further Reading 134 Table Major federal acts of the Great Depression and New Deal 137 Index 143 Acknowledgments I owe most to scholars cited in the text and am additionally grateful to Alan Brinkley, Greg Clark, Andrew Cohen, Meg Jacobs, Ari Kelman, David Kennedy, Peter Lindert, Alan Olmstead, Kathy Olmsted, Steve Sheffrin, Alan M Taylor, Louis Warren, undergraduates enrolled in History 174B at UC Davis in Spring 2007, and the conscientious referees and staff of the press for valuable comments and conversations about the Great Depression and New Deal List of Illustrations Civilian Conservation Corps weeding a Tennessee Valley Authority nursery 90 Library of Congress, LC-USW3-004511-D 45 Social Security Act Franklin D Roosevelt Library GDP and Unemployment 55 Historical Statistics of the United States, series Ba475 (unemployment) and Ca9 (GDP) ‘‘White Trade Only’’ 107 Library of Congress, LCUSF33- 006392-M4 Breadline in New York City Franklin D Roosevelt Library Hooverville squatters’ shacks Library of Congress, LC-USF34-004976-E 41 Franklin D Roosevelt during a ‘‘Fireside Chat’’ 58 Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-118215 Civilian Conservation Corps poultry farm 79 Franklin D Roosevelt Library Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-881 98 121 10 WPA Federal Art Project Mural 122 National Archives and Records Administration 69-N-P-1304 The Great Depression and the New Deal Olson, James S Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933–1940 Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988 Patterson, James T America’s Struggle against Poverty, 1900–1985 Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986 ——— Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933–1939 Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981 ——— The New Deal and the States: Federalism in Transition Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969 Phillips, Sarah T This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007 Romer, Christina D ‘‘The Great Crash and the Onset of the Great Depression.’’ Quarterly Journal of Economics 105, no (1990): 597–62 ——— ‘‘What Ended the Great Depression?’’ Journal of Economic History 52, no (1992): 757–84 Rothermund, Dietmar The Global Impact of the Great Depression London: Routledge, 1996 Rowley, William D M L Wilson and the Campaign for the Domestic Allotment Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970 Saloutos, Theodore ‘‘New Deal Agricultural Policy: An Evaluation.’’ Journal of American History 61, no (1974): 394–416 Schulman, Bruce J From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980 Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994 Skidelsky, Robert John Maynard Keynes: A Biography vols London: Macmillan, 1983–2000 Smith, Jason Scott Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 Volanto, Keith J Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005 Weir, David R ‘‘A Century of U.S Unemployment, 1890–1990: Revised Estimates and Evidence for Stabilization.’’ Research in Economic History 14 (1992): 301–46 136 Table Major federal acts of the Great Depression and New Deal Citation Date Description Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act 47 Stat 1/23/32 Created Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), capitalized at $500m and permitted to issue obligations worth up to three times as much, to aid banks and other industries Glass-Steagall Act 47 Stat 56 2/27/32 Permitted Federal Reserve System to issue notes backed by government securities Federal Home Loan Bank Act 137 Name of action 47 Stat 725 7/22/32 Created Home Loan Bank System, patterned on Federal Reserve System, to permit rediscounting of mortgage loans Emergency Banking Relief Act 48 Stat 3/9/33 Title I recognized a banking emergency, empowered the president to halt bank transactions and the secretary of the treasury to impound gold Title II empowered the comptroller of the currency to appoint conservators for banks, investigate their books, and determine their soundness Title III authorized the RFC to buy and sell bank stock Title IV liberalized the Federal Reserve System’s authority to issue advances to member banks Civilian Conservation Corp Reforestation Relief Act 48 Stat 22 3/31/33 Authorized the president to create a "conservation corps among the unemployed," which became the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), chiefly for the maintenance of public lands Agricultural Adjustment Act 48 Stat 31 5/12/33 Title I recognized a state of agricultural emergency and disparity between rural and urban incomes which it would be (Continued) Table (Continued) Name of action Citation Date Description policy to redress; directed the secretary of agriculture to create Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) to regulate production of commodities and administer processing tax Title II, or the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act, expanded federal power to back farm mortgages Title III, or the Thomas Amendment, authorized the president to issue paper money and determine the gold or silver weight of the dollar 48 Stat 55 5/12/33 Declared an economic emergency of unemployment and failure of local relief funds, allotted $500m of RFC money for a Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) to grant as relief to the states Tennessee Valley Authority Act 48 Stat 58 5/18/33 Created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to maintain and operate Wilson Dam and Muscle Shoals and to improve navigation and control floods in the region, extending to transmission of electrical power and manufacture of fertilizer and explosives Securities Act of 1933 48 Stat 74 5/27/33 Required corporations to register securities with the Federal Trade Commission to prevent fraudulent issues Home Owners’ Loan Act 48 Stat 128 6/13/33 Created the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) to refinance mortgages on residences and prevent foreclosures Banking Act of 1933 (Glass-Steagall 48 Stat 162 6/16/33 Increased power of the Federal Reserve Board to oversee transactions of Federal Reserve System, created the temporary 138 Federal Emergency Relief Act Banking Act) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), limited commercial banks’ ability to trade in securities 139 National Industrial Recovery Act 48 Stat 195 6/16/33 Title I recognized a state of industrial emergency, suspended anti-trust law, and authorized the president to create an agency to address the emergency by the composition of industrial codes; Roosevelt created the National Recovery Administration (NRA) Title II authorized the president to create a Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, which became the Public Works Administration (PWA), to lend and grant $3.3bn appropriated for this purpose Civil Works Administration Executive Order no 6420B 11/9/33 Roosevelt created the Civil Works Administration (CWA), funded with $400m from the National Industrial Recovery Act, "for the purpose of increasing employment quickly." Gold Reserve Act 48 Stat 337 1/30/34 Placed control of monetary gold in the federal government and authorized the president to establish the gold value of the dollar for a two-year period at not more than 60 percent of its current value; established a stabilization fund in the Treasury Securities Exchange Act 48 Stat 881 6/6/34 Created Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and empowered it to regulate trading of securities on the stock exchange National Housing Act 48 Stat 1246 6/27/34 Created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), funded out of the RFC, to insure mortgages (Continued) Table (Continued) Citation Date Description Joint Resolution for Enforcement of National Industrial Recovery Act 48 Stat 1183 6/19/34 Authorized the president to create a board to enforce section 7a (collective bargaining) of the National Industrial Recovery Act Roosevelt created the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 140 Name of action 49 Stat 115 4/8/35 Appropriated $4.9bn for emergency relief use Resettlement Administration Executive Order no 7027 4/30/35 Under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, Roosevelt created the Resettlement Administration (RA) to aid the migration of poor farm familes In 1937 RA became the Farm Security Administration (FSA) within the Department of Agriculture Works Progress Administration Executive Order no 7034 5/6/35 Under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, Roosevelt created a system for evaluating proposed projects including the Works Progress Administration (WPA), "to move from the relief rolls to work the maximum number of people in the shortest time possible." Rural Electrification Administration Executive Order no 7037 5/11/35 Roosevelt created Rural Electrification Administration (REA) to support the extension of electrical power using funds from the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 49 Stat 449 7/5/35 Created new NLRB to replace the board created by executive order in 1934, to assure specified rights of employees to organize and bargain collectively and prevent defined unfair labor practices Social Security Act 49 Stat 620 8/14/35 Title I provided for grants to states for old-age assistance Title II provided for federal old-age benefits Title III provided for grants to states to administer unemployment compensation plans Title IV provided grants to states for aid to dependent children Title V provided grants to states for maternal and child welfare Title VI allotted money to states for maintaining public health services Title VII established a Social Security Board to study and recommend "the most effective methods of providing economic security through social insurance." Titles VIII and IX levied taxes on employers and employees to support the program Title X provided grants to states for aid to the blind Banking Act of 1935 49 Stat 684 8/23/35 Title I made the FDIC permanent Title II amended the Federal Reserve Act to establish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, appointed by the president, and lodged powers to regulate the supply of money, establish credit policy, and supervise banks with them Public Utilities Holding Company Act 49 Stat 803 8/26/35 Defined a public interest in public utilites, enumerated abuses of that public interest, and made it policy to eliminate such abuses and also to eliminate holding companies 141 National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) (Continued) Table (Continued) Citation Date Description Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act 49 Stat 1148 2/20/36 Aimed at achieving agricultural parity through conservation measures National Housing Act Amendments of 1938 142 Name of action 52 Stat 2/3/38 Amended National Housing Act to make it easier to resell mortgages RFC created National Mortgage Association of Washington, later renamed the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), to resell mortgages Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 52 Stat 31 2/16/38 Established the yardstick of normal wheat yields and paid farmers to meet this target Fair Labor Standards Act 52 Stat 1060 6/25/38 Established national minimum wage and maximum hours, banned child labor Index A Berlin, Isaiah, 1, 5, 56 Black Thursday, 19 Black, John D., 80 Bonus Army, 1, 50–52 Bretton Woods, 6, 128–31 Brown, E Cary, 127 AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration), 78–82, 93, 96, 97, 109, 118, 137 AFL (American Federation of Labor), 82 African Americans, 24, 44, 45, 46, 100, 107, 112, 117 Agee, James, 48 Agricultural Adjustment Act, 77, 137 agriculture See farms and farming American Liberty League, 108, 109 Anglo-American Trade Agreement, 128 automotive industry, 13, 14, 19 C Carr, E H., 11 CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), 64, 66, 90, 108, 126, 137 CES (Committee on Economic Security), 97, 98, 102 charities, 41 Clayton Act, 82 communism, 50, 51, 110, 112, 120, 130 Consumers Advisory Board, 96 consumer spending, 13, 15, 19, 82 consumers’ unions, 96, 97 corruption, 68, 84 countervailing power, 5, 87, 88, 92, 95–97, 102, 118 court-packing, 113, 114 CWA (Civil Works Administration), 66–67, 139 Coolidge, Calvin, 23, 76, 89 Coughlin, Charles See Father Coughlin credit, purchasing on, 13–15, 18, 19 B Bagehot, Walter, 27, 30 Bank for Reconstruction and Development See World Bank Bankhead Cotton Control Act, 80 Banking Act of 1933, 59, 138 Banking Act of 1935, 62, 141 banking system, 30, 57, 59, 72 banks, 10, 17, 27, 29, 34, 63, 118; failures of, 19, 29, 30, 31, 56 Baruch, Bernard, 18 143 D Federal Land Bank system, 34 Federal Relief Appropriation Act, 67, 140 Federal Reserve System, 1, 3, 17, 27, 28, 30, 34, 57, 59, 61, 62, 137, 138, 141 Federal Theatre Project, 120, 121 Federal Writers’ Project, 119 FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration), 65–67, 137 fiscal policy, 5, 12, 26, 29, 33, 65, 66, 67, 93, 115, 116, 126, 127 Darrow, Clarence, 25, 84 debt: personal, 13, 15, 28, 47, 60, 62, 74; intergovernmental, 10, 12, 15, 27–29, 33, 60 See also monetary policy depressions and recessions, 5, 12, 29, 38, 47, 57, 115 See also Great Depression Dies, Martin, 120 dust bowl, 47 The Great Depression and the New Deal E G economic growth, 1, 5, 12–15, 57, 131 elections: of 1928, 23, 25; of 1930, 31; of 1932, 35, 52, 89, 105; of 1936, 102, 106, 108, 110–12; of 1938, 117, 126 Emergency Banking Act, 57, 61, 62 Emergency Relief and Construction Act, 63 European Recovery Program See Marshall Plan Evans, Walker, 48 Galbraith, John Kenneth, 87 global finance, 18, 20, 130 Gold Reserve Act, 62 gold standard, 59–62 Great Crash, 3, 18, 19, 28, 30, 40, 44, 47, 50, 77 Great Depression, 2, 3, 8, 19, 25, 38, 46, 48–50, 65, 69, 73, 101, 111, 126 Guffey Coal Act, 110 H Harburg, E Y., 39 Harrison, George L., 28 health insurance, 102 Hickok, Lorena, 48 hoboes, 44, 64 Hofstadter, Richard, 10 Home Loan Banks, 34, 137 Homestead Act, 73 Hoover, Herbert, 3, 6, 17, 20, 23–35, 50–52, 61, 63, 76, 82, 105, 107, 111; and 1927 flood relief, 23, 24; relief philosophy of, 24–26, 31, 32, 35; responses to Crash of, 26, 31–34, 63 Hoovervilles, 44, 45 Hopkins, Harry, 65–68, 99, 108 Howe, Frederic, 96 F Fair Labor Standards Act, 116, 126, 142 Father Coughlin, 49, 50, 112 Farrell, James, 32 farm policy, 73–79 farms and farming, 28, 46, 47, 56, 62, 73–76, 78, 79 FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), 59, 139, 141 Federal Art Project, 120 Federal Emergency Relief Act, 65, 137 Federal Employment Stabilization Board, 32 Federal Farm Board, 77 144 Hughes, Charles Evans, 16, 108 Hull, Cordell, 128 Morehead v New York ex rel Tipaldo, 110 Morgenthau, Henry, 126 Morrill Land Grant Act, 74 municipal assistance, 42, 43, 49 I Ickes, Harold, 65 IMF (International Monetary Fund), 129, 130 immigration and immigration policy, 9, 11, 12, 33, 38, 68 industrial policy, 81–84 N J Johnson, Hugh, 76, 81, 83 K Kennedy, David M., Kennedy, Joseph P., 18, 20, 62 Keynesianism, 118 Keynes, John Maynard, 8–11, 19, 20, 115, 116, 126, 128, 129, 131 L Lamont, Thomas, 29 Lange, Dorothea, 48 Laval, Pierre, 61 League of Nations, 11 Lilienthal, David, 90, 91 London Economic Conference, 72 M MacArthur, Douglas, 51 Marshall, George, 131 Marshall Plan, 130, 131 McNary-Haugen bills, 76, 77 McReynolds, James, 113 Mencken, H L., 25 Mills, Ogden, 34 Moley, Raymond, 59, 77 monetary policy, 17, 18, 27–30, 34, 56, 59, 61, 62, 72, 118, 129 O optimism, 18, 19, 25, 26, 31, 115 P Peek, George, 76, 78, 81 Pacific Railroad Act, 73 145 Index NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), 107 National Consumers’ League, 116 National Labor Relations Act, 105 National Industrial Recovery Act, 82, 95, 96, 110, 140 National Resources Planning Board, 118 New Deal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 56–69, 72, 77, 78, 82, 87, 88, 91, 94, 97, 101, 102, 106, 109, 111, 114, 116, 121, 126, 127, 130; approval/ disapproval of, 62, 64, 67–9, 78, 111; criticism and opponents of, 92, 106, 108–10, 113–18, 120; failures of, 66, 72, 84, 85, 93, 95, 116, 117, 131; major acts of, 137–42; methodology of, 1, 4, 6, 56–58, 67, 131; opposition to, 120; successes of, 57, 68, 91, 92, 93, 102, 117–20, 131 NLRB (National Labor Relations Board), 94, 95, 120, 140, 141 NRA (National Recovery Administration), 81, 83, 84, 94, 96, 108–110 106, 110, 111, 115; in the navy, 24, 88 Rumsey, Mary Harriman, 96 Patton, George S., 51 Perkins, Frances, 82, 84 political economy, 6, 70, 85, 88–90, 92, 93, 97, 102, 118 price-fixing, 81–84 PWA (Public Works Administration), 65, 66, 91, 92, 130 S Schecter v United States, 108 Schumpeter, Joseph, 19 Schwellenbach, Lewis, 87 SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission), 62, 139 sectionalism, 74–76, 90, 91, 100, 111, 113, 117 sexism, 44, 45 sharecropping, 48, 119 Smoot-Hawley Tariff, 28 Social Security, 98, 99–101, 106, 114, 118, 129 Social Security Act, 114 socialism, 32, 78, 85, 90 speculation, 16, 17 state power, 85, 95, 96, 101, 102, 107 strikes, 94 stock market, 15–17 stock pools, 16 Supreme Court, 82, 95, 108–11, 113, 114, 118 The Great Depression and the New Deal R racism, 24, 38, 40, 44–46, 92, 93, 100, 107, 117 recovery, 57, 72, 80–82, 85, 102, relief, 4, 57, 63–66, 67–9, 82, 116; attitudes toward public, 39, 41, 42, 49, 65, 67, 69, 126; federal efforts for aimed directly at public, 4, 13, 35, 63–66, 116; non–New Deal federal efforts for, 32–34, 63; private efforts for, 32; state and local efforts for, 26, 27, 32, 42, 49, 65, 68; work relief, 64–67, 82, 115, 116, 126 reflation, 4, 56, 59, 61, 62, 69 REA (Rural Electrification Administration), 91, 140 Revenue Act, 93 RFC (Reconstruction Finance Corporation), 34, 50, 57, 62, 63, 66, 137 Roberts, Owen, 114 Rockefeller, John D., 19 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1, 2, 4–6, 16, 20, 56–69, 77, 78, 82–89, 92, 94, 98, 101, 102, 105, 115, 116, 126, 131; as governor of New York, 32, 35, 52; and the Supreme Court, 109, 110–14; after the new deal, 126–31; campaigning and elections, 2, 5, 35, 52, 77, 89, 102; conservatism of 59, 66, T tariffs, 10, 11, 12, 28, 29, 60, 74, 76, 77 tax policy, 31, 74, 80, 93, 94, 99 Terkel, Studs, Thomas Amendment, 61, 62 TNEC (Temporary National Economic Committee), 116 trade policy, 9, 10, 28, 29 Trading with the Enemy Act, 57, 58 tramps See hoboes Treaty of Versailles, 8, 9, 11, 129, 131 146 Truman, Harry S, 117 TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), 89–91, 118, 130, 138 U Un-American Activities Committee, 120 underemployment 40 unemployment, 1, 5, 15, 26, 31–33, 40, 46, 55, 57, 64, 67, 96, 97, 101, 102, 115 126 unions, 32, 41, 82–4, 94–97, 116, 120 V veterans See Bonus Army W wages, 13, 14, 26, 69, 82, 95, 116 Wagner, Robert, 95 147 Index Wagner Act, 95, 96, 110, 114, 141 Wallace, Henry A., 76, 78, 85 West Coast Hotel v Parrish, 114 White, Harry Dexter, 129 White, Walter, 107 WIB (War Industries Board), 76, 81, 83 Wilson, Milburn L., 77, 78 Willkie, Wendell, 91 World Bank, 129, 130 world economy, 6, 20, 29, 72, 128, 130; 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