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President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Congress

75th Congress

Alben Barkley

William B. Bankhead

Legislation

Civil Aeronautics Act

Fair Labor Standards Act

Parties

Democratic Party History

Republican Party History

Elections

1938 US House Elections

1938 US Senate Elections


all years | 1929 | 1939

 1938  Turning Away from FDR

gdp
billion
$86.1
change
-3.4%
deflator
-2.8%
m2
billion
$45.51
change
-0.37%
dow
open
120.85
close
154.36
change
27.73%↑
fed
spend
billion
$6.8
fed
def
% gdp
0.12%
top
tax
rate
79%
cpi
change
-1.86%
job
less
rate
19%

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President: Roosevelt (D); Senate: Barkley (D-KY); House: Bankhead (D-AL).

us
senate
dem
76
rep
16
other
4
us
house
dem
334
rep
88
other
13

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The economic downturn that began in mid 1937 had ballooned unemployment from 14 percent in 1937 to 20 percent in 1938. In the spring President Roosevelt proposed a new $5 billion program of government spending to reverse the decline. The recession bottomed out at that moment and output increased 58 percent by 1940. He also appointed Thurman Arnold as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the anti-trust division of the Justice Department on the theory that the Great Depression was a consequence of monopoly power. A Civil Aeronautics Act established the Civil Aeronautics Authority with the power to regulate airline routes and fares. In June the Congress passed and the president signed the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 that established a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour, a forty hour week, and time-and-a-half for overtime, and banned most employment of children.

In the off-year elections of the Roosevelt second term the president's party suffered its first losses since 1928. In the Senate elections the Democrats lost 6 seats to the Republicans. In the House elections the Democrats lost 72 seats, the Republicans gained 81 seats, and the Progressive Party lost 6 seats. In the 76th Congress the Democrats maintained a commanding 68-23 majority in the Senate and a substantial 262-169 majority in the House.

all years | 1929 | 1939

1929-1939: “A Decade that will live — in stupidity.”

Why Stuck on Stupid?

Seventy years ago the leaders of both US political parties turned away from the policies that had created an economic powerhouse we call the Roaring Twenties. For ten long years Americans suffered through wrenching economic dislocations: deflation, inflation, a four-year economic contraction, endless unemployment, mindless political experiments, and ruthless attacks on businessmen for political gain as their leaders stayed Stuck on Stupid.

Today, after a twenty-five year economic boom, Americans are once more faced with a political elite that wants to monkey with success. It wants to raise tax rates. It wants to restrict trade. It wants to increase government power.

It’s time to look back and remind ourselves how it came to be, starting in 1929, that America got itself Stuck on Stupid. Otherwise it could happen again.

 — Christopher Chantrill

 

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