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Date Posted: 11:15:32 08/22/13 Thu
Author: points
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Subject: Re: Chapter 13: 1920-1936: History of the United States of America
In reply to: edy 's message, "Chapter 13: 1920-1936: History of the United States of America" on 11:10:19 08/22/13 Thu

points for chapter 13

*Unemployment rates: 1928 had 4.2 unemployment rate; 1930 had 8.7; 1932 had 23.6; 1934 had 21.7; 1936 had 16.9; 1938 had 19.0; 1940 had 14.6; 1942 had 4.7; 1944 had 1.2; 1948 had 3.8; 1950 had 5.3; and 1952 had 3.0 unemployment.

*Regarding racism, a racist person is harder on his family, then anyone else.
The excessive hate = self hate. You feel your own attitude. He who hates for hate sake alone is prejudiced against a race, also are prejudiced of the poor, the slow, et cetera.
People who practice prejudice, even long time ago, knew better also. Hardens their soul. Thus, when they hear morals are not up to them, with that hard heart, is simply hard on them. And they should have been taught better by society in the first place is why they still hear, if they will, proven then, it would have been me in his exact circumstance. Is true for who cares to go through the trouble of self correcting for real.

*Concerning the second stock market crash in 1937, on the internet, apparently, the monetarists and Keynesians use this moment in history for their debates. Honestly everyone, facts are in; so be.

*John Maynard Keynes [1883-1946], wrote the �General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money�. �A Technical work that advocated government intervention to lesson unemployment,�� [from �Sources of the West�]

*Monetarists are concerned with controlling how much money is in circulation; concerns about balancing the budget. ---If new money is made, because the government earned it before hand, due to real living wages for all, is why they shop. Is what will occur when living wages is the law.

*STUDENTS: CREATE TWO ECONOMIES. TWO SEPARATE ISLANDS, ON A WORLD, THE SIZE OF JUPITER. THESE TWO COUNTRIES DO NOT TRADE WITH EACH OTHER. ONE COUNTRY, EVERY PERSON IS GIVEN A TRUE LIVING WAGE FOR THEIR FAKE JOBS. IN THE OTHER COUNTRY, ALLOW THAT ONLY 40% MAKE A LIVING WAGE FOR THEIR FAKE JOBS, -- although many barely make a living wage, as is the case in real life.. �see what happens.

*1938: other Acts passed: Fair Labor Standards Act, 40 hour week day. To promote re-employment and purchasing power of the employees. Time and a half for overtime. Prohibits employing children under 16 who are producing goods for interstate commerce. [ Finally.] The Department of Labor was to enforce.
The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. Government helping farmers cure their soil, and make it fertile again. �..Bankhead Jones Act. 1937 Lent money with low interest rates to tenant farmers and sharecroppers. 40 year loan.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act 1938. 1. Gave benefits to farmers who withdrew acres for sales. 2. Government decided how much crops to grow. 3. Government stored large harvests, to be released later. And commodity loans. 4. To help in bad weather and plant diseases.
National Housing Act. Low income housing. 1937. For low income groups.
Wagner-Stegall Act, money to fund building housing projects.
Food, Drug, Cosmetic Act. 1938. To protect the consumer.
Wheeler-Lea Act 1938 prohibits manufacturers from making false or misleading claims.
1939. Hatch Act. Federal office holders cannot actively take part in campaigns. No solicitations for campaign funds. Can not use your position to influence elections. And it limited how much money a party can spend on a campaign, and how much any individual may contribute.

[On another planet in our sector, SM^^F lived on a normal world; thus he knows nothing other. SM^^F is only 17 years old; but he does not socialize for ego sake; no one does. Yet, he needs to grow more. His grandmother is only 60; she is without her ego anymore. She enjoys people the most, in consequence.]

*regular U.S. postal air mail service began, 1918.

*[info. On the Web, Gold Sterilization and the Recession of 1937 - 38. Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER.]

* [My own grandfather, Dad�s dad, born 1901, to a wealthy family in Spain. His dad sold gigantic mules �Spain was in terrible poverty. The people were suffering. All he told me was, well they burned my father�s crops. That the communists were coming. He didn�t know what happened, because he was apolitical. He was sheltered, until the Spanish Civil war in the 1930�s, when his father and father�s brother in law were murdered attempting to help two priests escape Spain into France. Mussolini bought mules from the family, and then forgot to pay for them. And Franco stole the families money by wars end; also, the money could not leave Spain. Granddaddy emigrated to the U.S., and found himself no longer wealthy, for the first time in his life.]

[My other grandfather, born 1890, grew up very poor. His father, a sharecropper. He and his brothers would throw dynamite in the river, to �catch� fish for dinner. He said it was illegal, but they didn�t have time to fish. They needed food on the table. �During the Depression Mom�s family lived on, and Grandfather farmed land my grandmother�s father owned. �.My mother was born 1932. She and her brother made a pretend restaurant; and then a hobo, as the traveling homeless were called, came by asking for food. Granny gave him a plate of food; and he ate at their pretend restaurant counter. STUDENTS; PUMP THE OLD RELATIVES! FOR STORIES FROM THE PAST.

*A new grandparent story book, would be a great school project, making Mr. Terkel proud.

*Studs Terkel wrote �Hard Times. An Oral History of the Great Depression. Pantheon Books. Division of Random House. NY @1970 Studs Terkel
In this book he interview many people in the 1960�s about their experiences during the Great Depression. A great read.
Mary, 22: �My father lived on a farm. �Went to NY city to look for a job. He took a job as a strikebreaker,� He didn�t realize how bad this would be, or how dangerous, � He remembers being shadowed by people with guns,� He really got out of that job quickly,� he was na�ve.�
A. Everette McIntyre, Federal Trade Commissioner: �About 5,000 of the bonus marchers and their families were camping in,� demolished buildings.� The police encircled them. There was some brick throwing. A couple of police men retaliated by shooting a man to death. He recalled General MacArthur and his sidekick Dwight Eisenhower standing around, hands on their hips, surveying the situation. �Soon, police in full gas mask gear, came and threw gas bombs.�
Most stories had it that many homeless came by; most people did give food, even their own clothing to them. As Emma Tiller had done, who had given a pair of her husbands shoes away,-- as she said she didn�t care what race they were, [she was a black woman, who was a cook in West Texas in the 1960's]. She helped because they needed help. Another woman, a white woman, gave away her husband�s suit. When he inquired where his suit was, he responded: �You�re the limit Mother.�

*The doors for emigration began to close, 1921. With the Quota system, limiting how many foreigners can emigrate to the U.S. Of course racism, so rampant, the Chinese emigrants were grossly prejudiced against, for instance.

*Unions are now stronger, as the New Deal made this occur, so that wages will increase.
The American Federation of Labor, A.F.L. exists now, for unskilled workers. As does the Committee for Industrial Organization, 1935, for industrial workers. The United Automobile Workers, (UAW). �Sit down strikes: go to work, and sit in your work spot.

*Francis Perkins, 1933, was Secretary of Labor. The first woman in U.S. history to hold a cabinet position. She had long experience in Social Work and in public life. She so gained labor�s support when it became clear she was one of the main voices speaking for civil rights, -- social security, getting children off the payrolls. [Being the very first woman in this position, at first even a head of a Union didn�t think she could do it because she is a woman. But only at first.] -- the Francis Perkins Play, students. [Her dealings with Roosevelt, and a wizard that pops in, {as they do in the Harry Potter series}. If you wish.]

*from the National First Ladies Website: Eleanor Roosevelt, the President�s wife, was probably the most politically active of all the first ladies. She had been very active in equal rights for everyone actually; she had accomplished a lot, ever before she was ever the First Lady. She was instrumental during her husbands governorship in getting Francis Perkins on board. While the First Ladies position dealt with issues, such as the �boy scouts�, Mrs. Roosevelt dealt in really important issues of peace, equality of man is women also, to uplift the poverty stricken. She even at one point, met with strikers. She had radio shows; and you sure can catch her on film! she had spoken at the United Nations. ��Press Conferences: On 6 March 1933, two days after becoming First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt held what was to become the first of 348 press conferences, with nearly 35 women in attendance. The idea emerged from her burgeoning friendship with Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickok as a direct measure to help women reporters keep their jobs during the depression. She conducted them to help keep the American people informed of her White House life and the political activities of the Administration, but to provoke national consciousness about larger issues and crises of the day, and to do so in newspaper print.� pasted from site.
�Mary McLeod Bethune, in the mid 1930�s, had created the National Council of Negro Women.� Unusual for the day, she was allowed to meet with Mrs. Roosevelt, to listen to her concerns about not only women�s rights, but Civil Rights for the black person. Together, they created a meeting with 65 black women leaders, to express their concerns.� [from Women and Power in American History.]

Will Rogers, 1879 -1935, was a well known humorist, radio commentator. In his youth, as a cowboy, he learned to lasso. He had a vaudeville lasso act, as he made dry comments. �One thing about farmers relief. It can�t last long, for the farmer ain�t got much to be relieved about."

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