The Great Depression - Justice and Infamy | 6

American History Tellers

Wondery

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As legal challenges to his New Deal programs mounted, President Roosevelt and his attorney general devised dramatic reforms to the Supreme Court’s structure. The proposed changes would open new rifts between the president and conservative members of his own party.

Other greater challenges loomed. A recession was threatening to unwind four years of economic recovery. The Senate launched a politicized investigation into purported un-American activities in federal work programs.

And on the other side of the world, a global crisis was building as war erupted in Asia and Europe. As the country re-armed and factories retooled to supply soon-to-be allies, the nationally finally pulled itself from the depths of Depression.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American History Tellers add free on Amazon Music,
0:05.6	download the app today.
0:07.0	Imagine it's the end of March 1937.
0:15.7	You work as a maid at a hotel in Walla Walla, Washington.
0:19.0	You make only 25 cents an hour, even though your boss is supposed to be paying you 30, but
0:24.1	at least it's something.
0:25.9	As you're changing the bedding in one of your rooms, you hear a shriek of delight down
0:29.6	the hall.
0:30.6	It's a strange thing to hear this early in the afternoon, especially because there are
0:34.3	so few guests checked in today.
0:36.8	You walk down the hall and see your fellow chamber-made Lucy, sitting on a bed and grinning.
0:41.2	What's going on in here, Lucy?
0:43.5	Find another dollar in the bathroom?
0:45.0	I might as well have.
0:47.4	They did it, Sue.
0:48.4	Robert Switch.
0:49.4	I just heard it on the radio.
0:51.2	You look at Lucy confused.
0:52.7	Robert, too.
0:53.7	Owen Roberts.
0:54.7	The Supreme Court Justice.
0:57.0	You don't read the newspaper, do you?
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