Backlash

• Associated Farmers in California
• FDR court-packing plan
• Little Steel's Memorial Day Massacre May 30, 1937
• Leonidies McDonald beaten; Gov. Martin Davey sent troops
• FDR refused aid: "a plague on both your houses"
• FDR 1938 purge of southern conservatives failed to "realign" the party
• conservatives won 1938 midterm elections in West
• conservative Republican-Dixiecrat alliance in Congress blocked New Deal
• Martin Dies HUAC attacked Federal Theater, CIO
• Howard Smith Rules Committee weakened NLRB

Roosevelt Recession

• FDR cut expenditures to balance budget, start of SS tax
• 1938 Keynesian spending bill to "prime the pump"
• corporations targeted by TNEC, Thurmond Arnold Antitrust Division
• Wagner-Steagall Housing Act 1937-39 built 117,000 homes
• "The corporate counteroffensive reached full flower at the 1939 New York World's Fair, where scores of corporations advertised their vision of an abundant future under the guidance of giant conglomerates."

Legacies

• "the resurgence of congressional conservatism and corporate power had checked further progress in democratizing American society."
• New Deal was an "economic failure" but "nevertheless transformed the nation's politics" with a coalition of liberals, farmers, unions, minorities
• New Deal was a cultural triumph as "the state became an active even a protective presence in citizens' lives."
• a new kind of patriotism rose "from a pluralism far more genuine" than of earlier times
• "America's working people had transformed themselves from subjects into citizens."

• Depression Links and Causes and Responses and Films and Articles and Chapter 9