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Transformation of Powers in U S Government During Crisis
A Washington essay traces the shift of authority from Congress to President Roosevelt during the early New Deal crisis. It details banking and reorganization acts, the inflation rider, and proposed rail and industry measures, arguing Congress surrendered power while Roosevelt gained broad discretionary controls.
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Washington
Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Courts
Supreme Court of the United States
Roosevelt
Franklin
House
Senate
Federal Reserve Banks
Thomas
Oklahoma
Ion
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge
Wagner
New York
Brain Trust
War Industries Board
Federal Trade Commission
National Association of Manufacturers
H. S. Harriman
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
House of Representatives
Commerce and Labor
National Board
London
Raymond Moley
Henry Morgenthau, Sr
Turkey
James M. Cox
Ohio
Geneva
Organization Committee
Norman H. Davis
MacDonald
British Board of Trade
Walter Runciman
White House
Interstate Commerce Commission
R. Roosevelt
Thomas le Breton
Argentina
Espil
Doctor le Breton
Wallace
Guido Jung
Italy
Augusto Rosso
Hpneres
Secretary of Agriculture
Farmers’ Convention
Des Moines
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Robert Ley
States’ Council
Hitler
Central Association of German Banks
Bernhard Rust
Berlin University
Cologne University
Soviet
Russia
Dimitri Bogomoloff
Moscow
Nanking
Japan
China
Liaotung Peninsula
Manchuria
Bank of International Settlements
Treasury
Department of Justice
Supreme Court
Luis M. Sancho Cerro
Peru
Abelardo de Mendoza
Aprista
Colombia
Mendoza
Peruvian Congress
Oscar Benevides