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Thunder on the Left Father Charles Coughlin: National Union for Social Justice) Dr. Francis Townsend: National Old Age Pension) Huey Long: Share Our Wealth.

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1 Thunder on the Left Father Charles Coughlin: National Union for Social Justice) Dr. Francis Townsend: National Old Age Pension) Huey Long: Share Our Wealth Upton Sinclair: End Poverty in California (EPIC)

2 Coughlin & Long

3 Townsend & Sinclair

4 Second New Deal Social Security Act of 1935 Banking Act of 1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act Wealth Tax Act Wagner Act--National labor Relations Board – (Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938) Agriculture: Resettlement Admin. (1935-37: Rexford Tugwell); Farm Security Admin. (1937-42)

5 Referendum on the Second New Deal CandidateFDR (D)Alf LandonW. Lemke (U) Popular Vote27,752,86916,674,665882,479 Electoral Vote5238 Percentage60.8 36.5 1.9 Congressional Majorities Senate: Dems: 76 Reps: 16 House: Dems: 331 Reps: 89

6 1936 Election by State

7 1936 Election by County

8 Triumph of Urban Liberalism Dem. Plurality in Nation's 12 Largest Cities 1928 Election1932 Election1936 Election 30,0001,791,0003,479,000 FDR wins 104 of the 106 U.S. cities with over 100,000 population

9 End of the New Deal (Death?!) A) Supreme Court Packing Plan Anti-New Deal DecisionsPro-New Deal Decisions Schecter (Sick Chickens), 1934West Coast Hotel Co., 1937 Butler v. U.S., 1936Jones and Laughlin, 1937 Morehead, 1936Helvering, 1937 B) Roosevelt's Identity with Labor Memorial Day Massacre, 1937 Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) Sit-Down Strikes C) 1938 Recession (Roosevelt Recession) D) Congressional Elections of 1938 (FDR's "Purge" effort)

10 Legacies of the New Deal FDIC SEC Farm Aid Social Security System National Labor Relations Board Newt Gingrich’s Contract for America, 1994 Tea Party (ies?), 2008-10


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