The National Recovery Administration and It's Faults (Collier's Magazine, 1933)
An excerpt from a longer article by Winston Churchill in which he praised the virtues of the Anglo-American alliance and the economic leadership forged by the two nations during the Depression. Four paragraphs are devoted to the confusion he experienced when stopping to consider some of President Roosevelt's decisions and the roll played by his National Recovery Administration (NRA)."...But when it comes to shortening the hours of labor at a time of unparalleled unemployment, one feels that President Roosevelt is again marching along the high road of national and international salvation."
Click here if you would like to read an article about how the NRA fired thousands of Hollywood extras in the 1930s.
| John Garner on F.D.R. (Collier's, 1948)
A printable article by John Nance Garner (1868 - 1967), FDR's first Vice-President (1933 - 1941), who wrote a number of pieces for the readers of "Collier's" magazine in 1948 outlining the various reasons for their contentious relationship. This four page article is a segment of a longer one that laid out the cause for one of their most bitter arguments: the Flint Sit-Down Strike (1936 - 1937).
"Cactus Jack" Garner bickered with F.D.R. on a number of issues; primarily supporting a balanced federal budget and opposing F.D.R.'s efforts to pack the Supreme Court. Within these attached pages, Garner tells how Roosevelt lost the support of his Democratic Congress.
| African-Americans, FDR, and the 1944 Election (Yank, 1944)
A segment from a longer article regarding the 1944 presidential election and the widespread disillusionment held by many Black voters regarding the failings of Roosevelt's New Deal:"...the Negro vote, about two million strong, is shifting back into the Republican column." The report is largely based upon the observations of one HARPER'S MAGAZINE correspondent named Earl Brown.
| Leon Trotsky Speaks About FDR and the Depression (Rob Wagner's Script Magazine, 1938)
Two and a half years were left on the clock for the exiled Leon Trotsky (né Lev Davidovich Bronstein: 1879 – 1940) until he would have to keep his rendezvous with an icepick in Mexico - and while living it up on this borrowed time he granted an interview to this one correspondent from a Beverly Hills literary magazine in which he ranted on in that highly-dated and terribly awkward Bolsheviki language about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his social programs.
| The Okies and the Dust Bowl (Ken Magazine, 1938)
"The other half of California's 200,000 migratory workers are farmers who trekked from the dust bowl area; they found work on farms, but not farming; it's seasonal piecework, like in a mill. Each Oklahoma nomad dreams of a cottage and a cow, but he's just sitting on a barbed wire fence. With the publicity over, the government has forgotten the dust bowl refugees. At Depression depth, a man might make $8 a week; now, $5 is lucky. They are the bitterest folk in America; blood may flow..."
Click here if you would like to read a 1940 article about the the finest movie to ever document the flight of the Okies: "The Grapes of Wrath".
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