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)
Coughlin & Long
Townsend & Sinclair
Second New Deal
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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)
Referendum on the Second New Deal
Candidate
Popular Vote
FDR (D)
27,752,869
Alf Landon
W. Lemke (U)
16,674,665
882,479
Electoral Vote 523
Percentage 60.8
8
36.5
Congressional Majorities
Senate: Dems: 76 Reps: 16
House: Dems: 331 Reps: 89
1.9
1936 Election by State
1936 Election by County
Triumph of Urban Liberalism
• Dem. Plurality in Nation's 12 Largest Cities
1928 Election 1932 Election 1936 Election
30,000
1,791,000
3,479,000
FDR wins 104 of the 106 U.S. cities with over
100,000 population
End of the New Deal (Death?!)
A) Supreme Court Packing Plan
Anti-New Deal Decisions
Schecter (Sick Chickens), 1934
Butler v. U.S., 1936
Morehead, 1936
Pro-New Deal Decisions
West Coast Hotel Co., 1937
Jones and Laughlin, 1937
Helvering, 1937
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• 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)
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