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Political Upswing Confounds 1938 Expectations Across States
The piece analyzes a Republican upsurge reshaping national politics after 1936. It cites dissatisfaction with New Deal recovery, farm policies, and wariness of WPA machines, noting gains in Northern states and pockets of Southern resistance. It also discusses international signaling from King George visits and Mussolini’s and Hitler’s moves, plus Ataturk’s death altering regional leadership dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Alfred Landon
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
George H. Earle
America
Congress
Henry A. Wallace
South
South Carolina
Georgia
Maryland
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Frank Murphy
Committee For Industrial Organization
Ohio
California
North Dakota
New York
Herbert H. Lehman
Thomas E. Dewey
Lehman
Republican House
Great Britain
George
Albert Lebrun
Buckingham Palace
Paris
France
England
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
King George