Franklin Roosevelt: The Great Depression
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The New Deal and Roosevelt
Amity Schleis: Franklin Roosevelt promised a recovery in the 1930s. She says his National Recovery Administration decided everything down to how many logs a lumberyard could cut, and at what time. The new deal back organized labor's demands for much higher wages, she says. As the years passed, however, the recovery stayed away, writes Schleis.
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