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Shaping of National Policies By Congress in 1940 Race
Brackart analyzes the first session of the seventy sixth Congress, tracing party splits, reforms and resistance to FDR. He argues Congress regained power, limited New Deal initiatives, and set a platform likely to shape the 1940 campaign and national policy without a third term for Roosevelt.
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Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
George
Georgia
Smith
South Carolina
Tydings
Maryland
O’connor
New York
United States
Joe Guffey
Pennsylvania
Guffey
Supreme Court
Brain Trust
America
Mr. Roosevelt
House
Dies
Texas
Labor Relations Board
Federal Communications Commission
Heaven and Earth
WPA
New Deal
Harrison
Mississippi
Haynes
The
Treasury
Doughton
Ways and Means Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lyle Wilson
United Press Bureau
Wilson
Hall
Department of State
United Press
Capitol