Ch.33 Flashcards
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Democratic governor of New York who had infantile paralysis and was a charming, athletic, 6’2” figure.
H.S- He had a very politically active wife and advocated the New Deal
Elenor Roosevelt
FDR’s distant cousin as well as wife.
H.S- She traveled countless miles with him or on his behalf in all his campaigns. She was to become the most active First Lady in history.
Harry Hopkins
A New York social worker who had earlier won Roosevelt’s friendship and who became one of his most influential advisers.
H.S- He was in charge of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). He granted about $3 billion to the states for direct dole payments
Frances Perkins
The Secretary of Labor who became America’s 1st woman cabinet member
H.S- She was subjected to much undeserved criticism from male businessmen, laborites, and politicians.
Father Coughlin
A Catholic priest in Michigan who began broadcasting in 1930 and whose slogan was “Social Justice”
H.S- his anti-new deal harangues to some 40 million radio fans finally became so anti-semitic, fascistic, and demagogic that he was silenced in 1942.
Huey Long
A senator of Louisiana who used his abundant rabble-rousing talents to publicize his “share our wealth” program. Every family was to receive $5,000, supposedly at the expense of the prosperous.
H.S- He was shot by an assassin in the Louisiana state capitol in 1935.
Mary McLeod Bethune
The director of the office of Minority affairs in the National Youth Administration.
H.S- She served as the highest ranking African American in the Roosevelt administration.
Harold Ickes
The acid-tongued secretary of interior who was a free swinging former bull mooser who headed the public works administration.
H.S- In time over $4 billion was spent on some 34,000 projects which included public buildings
George W. Norris
The Senator of Nebraska whose steadfast vision and unflagging zeal led to the Tennessee Valley Authority.
H.S- One of the mighty dams was named after him.
John L. Lewis
A domineering and melodramatic boss of the United Mine Workers.
H.S- In 1935, he succeeded in forming the Committee for Industrial Organization withing the ranks of the skilled-craft American Federation of Labor.
Alfred M. Landon
The honest governor of the state of Kansas who the Republicans chose as their presidential candidate.
H.S- He was a moderate who accepted some New Deal reforms although not the popular social severity act.
Boondoggling
The tens of thousand of jobless during the winter emergency who worked ranking leaves and other make-work tasks.
H.S- The kind of labor was a slow motion task and the scheme was widely criticized.
Parity
the price set for a product that gave it the same real value, in purchasing power, that it had enjoyed during the period of 1909 to 1914.
H.S- The “AAA” was to establish parity prices for basic commodities.
