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HIST 1312 1st Edition Lecture 26 Outline of Last Lecture I. Work Relief Agencies A. C.C.C.B. C.W.A.C. W.P.A and P.W.A.II. Reform AgenciesA. T.V.A.B. R.E.A.III. Recovery AgenciesA. N.I.R.A.B. U.S. vs Schlecter PoultryC. A.A.A.Outline of Current Lecture I. Supreme Court Packing SchemeII. Alternatives to End the Great DepressionA. Huey Long—Share Our WealthB. Gerald L.K. SmithC. Dr. Francis Townsend & Father CoughlinIII. Social Security ActIV. Wage and Hour Act & Wagner ActCurrent Lecturel.President FDR didn’t like the old men on the Supreme Court because they did not vote in his favor. So for every one justice who was over 70 he wanted to be able to choose another person for the Supreme Court, people were angry at this so he had to back down from it.ll.A. In Louisiana a school was on fire and when children tried to escape on the ladder escapeit collapsed and killed some children. So Huey Long decides to help the parents sue the contractor. He wins and becomes the people’s hero. He became the governor of Louisiana and did everything he could for the poor person. He then ran for President These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.against FDR on his program ‘Share the Wealth’. This program allowed millionaires to keep 1 million and the other gets taxed at 100% so they’d lose 9 million. This wealth would be redistributed and given $3,500 to poor people. This program is Communism and Long gets shot by his mistresses’ brother.B. Gerald L.K. Smith was a pastor who would go to small churches and make them big. His wife got sick so he took her to Louisiana. His parishioners at his new church are behind on their mortgage so they ask the pastor for help. The contractor said he could not give them an extension so Smith talks to Long and Long makes the contractor pay the rest of their dues himself. Smith is impressed by this so he joins Long’s program.C. Dr. Francis Townsend is a geriatric physician who proposed a plan that people over 62 and older would retire and get a small pension a month so younger people could work. He proposed that a small amount of income would be taxed and set aside for later so they could retire on this later. Townsend, Smith, and Father Coughlin form their own political party to promote this.lll.FDR does not want to lose the election so he gets Congress to pass the Social Security Act. Somepeople were against this because they now had to prove their ages and some did not have a birth certificate. People could no longer run away somewhere else and change their name and now everyone was assigned a number. lV.The Wage and Hour Act was passed in 1937 which stated that employers must pay their employees extra whenever they worked over 40 hours. So 60 hours drops to 40 hours and morepeople are hired this way. The Wagner Act said that labor has the right to engage in collective


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