The New Deal got underway during the first 100 days of the Roosevelt administration and experienced both successes and failures; but those failures and a mounting opposition to New Deal policies and programs would deter the New Deal from moving forward. ... Among the high points were the Works Progress Act (WPA), the Social Security Act, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), farming and labor reform. ... " (Link 301) The first New Deal's National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was renewed in 1935 albeit with pressure by Roosevelt, but it was deemed unconstitutional shortl...

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Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression discusses America under president Franklin D. ... In the United States head of the National Recovery Administration, Hugh Johnson implemented the symbol of the Blue Eagle to pressure businesses into complying with the agency's code. ... Garraty compares the response to the Depression between the industrial nations most profoundly affected by the crisis: the United States and Germany from 1933 to 1937. He views the two Western industrial societies as fundamentally ...

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