new deal

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When the New Deal put a cop on the Wall Street beat, Dillon cleaned up his act and lived long enough to outlast the memory of his tawdry methods.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was praised by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and built support for New Deal programs, such as federal migrant camps, and for union-organizing efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal

During the Great Depression, the Works Projects Administration, a New Deal agency created to combat unemployment, established 14 emergency nursery schools in New York.

From Salon

They worked in the shadow of what scholars and commentators called “the liberal consensus” that was formed around the New Deal and, later, the civil rights revolution.

From Salon

That approach influenced the 1935 Wagner Act, which established the National Labor Relations Board, and other New Deal policies.

From The Wall Street Journal