The Depression Decade: From New Era Through New Deal, 1929-41
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The Depression Decade: From New Era Through New Deal, 1929-41

From New Era Through New Deal, 1929-41

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The Depression Decade: From New Era Through New Deal, 1929-41

From New Era Through New Deal, 1929-41

About this book

Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and growth of American commerce from the era of the Great Depression until World War II.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780873320979
eBook ISBN
9781315496719
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business General
Index
Business

Indexs

Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, how framed, 186-187
loans under, 192-195
marketing agreements, 195-197
purposes and program, 187-189
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 206-207
Agricultural Adjustment Administration, and avoided disabilities of NRA, 237-238
and consumers, 201-202
crop restriction the early purpose, 197-199
discriminated against classes of tenants, 200-201
limited success of, 208
tried to use democratic methods, 191-192
Agricultural migrants, 212-213, 221
Agriculture, advancing technology in, 217 ff.
causes of depression in, 181-183
“domestic allotments,” 184, 186
only remotely under OPA, 388
overproduction in, 65-67
repeated schemes for relief, 183—184
summary for the period, 226-227
technological improvement, 182
American Federation of Labor, and automobile workers, 296-297
and efforts at labor unity, 303-304
loss of membership in “New Economic Era,” 268-269
reluctant to organize industrial unions, 290-292
and unemployment compensation, 306
American Labor Party, 302
Arnold, Thurman, 199
on TNEC, 361
Atlantic Charter, 127, 402
Autarchy, in Germany, 19
Automobile Labor Board, 276
Bank crisis, spring of 1933, cleanup after, 167-168
decision of New Deal to bolster private bankers, 132-133
and Hoover’s appeal to Roosevelt, 129-130
Moley said nearly destroyed capitalism, 135-136
and Roosevelt’s inaugural, 132
whether affected by publicity for RFC loans, 78
Bank failures, 127-129
Bank “holidays,” 129-131, 133
Banking Act of 1933, bank holding companies regulated, branch banking allowed, deposits insured, open market committee reformed, 165-166
disallowed loans for others, 160-161, 164
owed much to PĂ©cora investigation, 155
Banking Act of 1935, 168-170
Baruch, Bernard M., 372-373
Benefit payments to farmers, 187-188, 197, 200, 201, 203
Billikopf, Jacob, 86, 101-102
Black-Connery thirty-hour bill, 234
“Bonus Army,” 108-110, 271
“Brains trust,” 123-124
Branch banking, 165
Chain stores, 261-265
Chicago, financial pli...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Prologue: World Economy between Wars
  6. I. Descent and Deficit
  7. II. Hoover’s Depression Policies
  8. III. Evolution of Relief
  9. IV. Banking and Currency Crisis
  10. V. Financial and Banking Reforms
  11. VI. Agricultural Adjustment
  12. VII. National Recovery Administration
  13. VIII. Labor under the New Deal
  14. IX Public Works
  15. X. Tennessee Valley and Reciprocal Trade
  16. XI. War to the Rescue
  17. XII. The Literature of the Subject
  18. Appendix
  19. Index