Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 Quotes

“The New Deal, which gave unprecedented authority to intellectuals in government, was, in certain important respects, anti-intellectual. Without the activist faith, perhaps not nearly so much would have been achieved. [...] Yet the liberals, in their desire to free themselves from the tyranny of precedent and in their ardor for social achievement, sometimes walked the precipice of superficiality and philistinism.”
― William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940

“In the spring of 1931, West African natives in the Cameroons sent New York $3.77 for relief for the "starving"; that fall Amtorgs's new York office received 100,000 applications for job in Soviet Russia. On a single weekend in April, 1932, the 'Ile de france' and other transatlantic liner carried nearly 4,000 workingmen back to Europe; in June, 500 Rhode Island aliens departed for Mediterranean ports.”
― William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940

“In Chicago [during the Great Depression], a crowd of some fifty hungry men fought over barrel of garbage set outside the back door of restaurant”
― William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940