Search Results

(Harry Hopkins) (New Deal critics)

21. New Deal Critics

(Do I feel a draft?) (Third term open question.) (Newspaper. "President Roosevelt will not seek a third term unless drafted." Jim Farley.) (To Senator Rush D. Holt with best wishes.  Paul Plaschke.)

22. Do I Feel a Draft?

(Hallowe'en 1938.) (New Deal hydro-electric power competition.) (Cheap imported fuel oil competition.) (The coal industry.) (Ringg-gg-ggg!) (New Deal congressional candidates.)

23. Hallowe'en 1938

(The most famous voter in our district this morning.) "Look!  He voted the straight Democratic ticket!" "Why--he isn't on the public payroll!" "And he isn't on relief, either!" "My goodness--think of it!" (Federal jobholders) (State jobholders) (WPA vote) (Road com. vote) (Relief vote) (AAA vote) (Coal com. vote) (FHA vote) "Am I seeing things?" (Ballot)

24. The Most Famous Voter in our District This Morning

(As getting up time approaches.) "I'm in favor of setting the alarm forward four years." "Why not eight more?" "Or twelve?" "Or sixteen?" (2-Term precedent) (Soft New Deal Jobs)

25. As Getting Up Time Approaches

(That big-check suit that was hung on Harry.) (Hopkins) "It doesn't belong to me!" "It fits perfectly" ("Spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect" statement)

26. That Big-Check Suit That Was Hung on Harry

(We'd Like to Help Too, Mr. Guffey.) (F.D.R. 1st term) ("Canceled by the Supreme Court") (F.D.R. 2nd term) ("Canceled by the tories") (F.D.R. 3rd term) (To Senator Holt with kindest regards, Bruce Russell)

27. We'd Like To Help Too, Mr. Guffey

(Hope Springs Eternal!) "Maybe I'll retire at 65!" (New Deal averages spending $63 per person since 1935.)

28. Hope Springs Eternal

(Relief Rolls) "Harry, it's sorta a coincidence that it reached its peak on election day, isn't it?" (Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec.) (Harry Hopkins) (Taxpayer)

29. Relief Rolls