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Rexford Tugwell

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Part of Roosevelt’s “brain trust”

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Raymond Moley

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Part of Roosevelt’s “brain trust”

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Adolph A. Berle

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Part of Roosevelt’s “brain trust”

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Felix Frankfurter

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Part of Roosevelt’s “brain trust”, also Roosevelts Supreme Court appointees who had a loose interpretation of the constitution

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Harold L. Ickes

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Part of Roosevelts cabinet; secretary of the interior, directed PWA, Indian rights, conservationists

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Frances Perkins

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Part of Roosevelts cabinet, secretary of labor, first women named to cabinet post

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Henry A. Wallace

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Part of Roosevelts cabinet, agriculture

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Henry Morgenthau

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Part of Roosevelts cabinet, secretary of treasury

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Bernard Baruch

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Financier, influential to FDR, war industries Board during World War I

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Emergency banking act

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Permitted banks to reopen if A treasury department inspection show that they had sufficient cash reserves

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FDIC

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: insured deposits up to $2,500

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Glass-Steagall Act

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Restored public confidence by creating FDIC

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Home owners loan corporation

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Refinance home mortgages threatened by foreclosure

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CCC

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Civilian Conservation Corps: gave jobs to young men (reforestation and conservation)

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TVA

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Tennessee Valley Authority: produce cheap hydroelectric power and encourage economic development in the flood prone Rivervalley, Also a government owned corporation

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AAA

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Agricultural adjustment act: created by the administration officials and major from organizations also paid the seven major commodities to waste half of their stuff to higher prices

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STFU

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Southern tenant farmers Union: a biracial organization

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The national industrial recovery act

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Reflected corporatists

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NRA

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National recovery administration: established a system of self-government in more than 600 industries (minimum-wage laws, outlawed child labor and allowed union representation)

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FERA

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Federal emergency relief administration: directed by Harry Hopkins, provided federal funds to the states for relief programs, spent around 1 billion

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Harry Hopkins

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Directed the FERA and was a hard driving social worker from the New York, directed CWA, WPA

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Dole

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Popular name for government welfare payments

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PWA

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Public Works administration: a construction program directed by secretary of the interior Harold L. Ickes. Failed due to his consciousness and approaching public work projects

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CWA

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Civil Works administration: directed by Harry Hopkins after the failed PWA, put millions to work on repairing bridges building highway is construction on public buildings

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SEC

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Securities and exchange commission: to regulate stock market as well as companies that issued stock and bond the public, set rules for credit transactions, prevent sales on inside

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The banking act of 1935

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Authorized the president to appoint a new board of governors of the federal reserve system place in control on interest rates and other money market policies at the federal level rather than regional banks

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Liberty league

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Conservative Democrats who lobbied against reckless spending and socialist reforms of the new deal

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National industrial recovery act

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And unconstitutional delegation of congresses legislative power to a code rating agency in the executive branch of the government

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Congress shut down these new deal legislation:

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The agricultural adjustment act, the Railroad retirement act, and the Frazier– Lemke debt relief act

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Francis Townsend

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Was a Long Beach, California, doctor, who spoke for the nations elderly, and propose the old age revolving pension plan

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Old age revolving plan

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Promise 200 a month for retirement after the age of 60

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Charles Coughlin

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Catholic priest from Detroit, use the radio to support the new deal but refuse to nationalize the banking system and expand the money supply organize the national union for social justice

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Senator Huey Long

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Democrat governor of Lee’s Louisiana who acted as a dictator to achieve what he wanted, also established to share our wealth society, assassinated in sept 1935

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Share our wealth society

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Posted over 4 million followers argued that depression did not stem from overproduction but from under consumption, also wanted all income tax over 1 million and prohibit inheritances over 5 million

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Revenue act of 1935

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Proposed a substantial tax increase on corporate profits and higher income and state taxes on the wealthy citizens

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The Wagner act

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Sponsored by Sen. Robert F Wagner of New York, it upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions but did not apply to farmworkers because of the opposition of southern Democrats.

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NLRB

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National Labour relations Board: protected workers from employer coercion, supervise elections for Union stuff and guarantee the process of collective-bargaining

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Grace Abbott

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Head of children’s bureau, wanted Social Security act

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Social Security act

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It aided the elderly after retirement ,the blind, and he disabled as well as dependent children

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AFDC

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Aid to families with dependent children: 60% were African-American or Hispanic, and became the epitome of the American welfare system but was also the most controversial

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Alfred M. Landon

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Progressive governor of Kansas who accepted the new deal but said it was expensive and inefficient

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William Lemke

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North Dakota, candidate for Long-Townsend-Coughlin group

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Hugo black

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Roosevelts Supreme Court appointees who had a loose interpretation of the constitution

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William O. Douglas

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Roosevelts Supreme Court appointees who had a loose interpretation of the constitution

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The national housing act of 1937

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Mandated the construction of low-cost public housing in the fair labor standards act of 1938

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Fair labor standards act of 1938

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Made permanent minimum-wage maximum hours and anti-child labor provisions in the NRA codes

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John Maynard Keynes

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A British economist to propose that governments use deficit spending to stimulate the economy went private spending provides insufficient

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Deficit spending

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Funds obtained by borrowing rather than through taxation

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CIO

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The Congress of industrial organizations: organized both skilled andunskilled into one union, “industrial liberalism”

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AFL

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The American Federation of labor: favored organizing workers on a craft by craft basis and helped to create the CIO

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John L. Lewis

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Leader of the UMW but rejected the AFL

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UMW

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United mine workers: the foremost exponent of industrial unionism

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UAW

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United automobile workers: staged a sit down in protest for bargaining and succeeded

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SWOC

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Steelworkers organizing committee: successfully stage to sit down

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Del Monte

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Corporate giants who paid women less than men

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McNeill

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Corporate giants who paid women less than men

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Libby

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Corporate giants who paid women less than men

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Molly Dewson

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Supported the new deal reforms and was a social reformer turned politician as well as head of the women’s division of the Democratic National Committee

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Scottsboro vs Supreme Court case

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Nine black men accused or rape from white females

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The resettlement administration

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It was to help small farmers and tenants by land and was fucked for by the black tenant farmers until angry Southerners in Congress stopped it

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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Appointed to office by Roosevelt administration. Founded Bethune-Cookman college, president of NACW, and organized the NCNW, new dealer

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NACW

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National Association of colored women:A leading black women’s organization

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NCNW

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National Council of Negro women:A coalition of the major associations of black women

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John Collier

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Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs who pushed for an Indian section in the CCC and made relief projects for them in FERA and CWA

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Indian reorganization act of 1934 “Indian new deal”

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Reversed the Dawes Act of 1887 by promoting self government through formal constitutions and democratically elected tribal councils

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Cultural pluralism

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A pledge to preserve Indian language, arts, and traditions

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Cesar Chavez

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strikes (imperial valley) including San Joaquin valley, founded United farm workers union for Mexican American workers

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United farm workers union

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For Mexican American workers

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Huiguan

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Means district associations and was a Chinese social organization

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Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934

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Granted independence to the Philippines but restricted immigrants

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John Steinbeck

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Wrote the grapes of wrath

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Dorothea Lange

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Photographer for migrant camps in California

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REA

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The rural electrification administration: kept farmers on land by enhancing the quality of rural life

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FAP

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Federal arts project: gave work to many young artists who would become the twentieth century’s leading painters, moralists, and sculptors

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Jackson pollock

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Recieved help from fap, artist

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Alice neel

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Recieved help from fap, artist

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William de Kooning

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Recieved help from fap, artist

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Louis nevelson

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Recieved help from fap, artist

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Federal music project

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Employed 15 thousand musicians, emphasized American themes

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Aaron Copland

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Composer that wrote ballets billy the kid and rodeo for WPA

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Charles Seeger

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Musicologist employed by fed govt.

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Ruth Crawford Seeger

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employed by fed govt to catalog hundreds of American folk songs, composer

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FWP

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Gave work to 5 thousand writers, producing 1000+ publications

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FWP employees who achieved fame

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Saul bellow, Ralph Ellison, Rollie Olsen, and john Cheever

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Zora neale Hurston

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FWP, wrote their eyes were watching God,

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Richard wright

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Won story magazine prize for the best take by a WPA writer, wrote native son (bitter look on racism)

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FTP

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Federal theatre program: most ambitious directed by hallie Flanagan, cut by congress for being sympathetic to communism

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FTP HELPERS

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Orson Welles, john Huston, Arthur miller

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