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Mason Williams
City of Ambition: Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, and the Making of New Deal New York Mason Williams Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2012 © 2012 Mason Williams All Rights Reserved Abstract City of Ambition: Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, and the Making of New Deal New York Mason Williams This dissertation offers a new account of New York City’s politics and government in the 1930s and 1940s. Focusing on the development of the functions and capacities of the municipal state, it examines three sets of interrelated political changes: the triumph of “municipal reform” over the institutions and practices of the Tammany Hall political machine and its outer-borough counterparts; the incorporation of hundreds of thousands of new voters into the electorate and into urban political life more broadly; and the development of an ambitious and capacious public sector—what Joshua Freeman has recently described as a “social democratic polity.” It places these developments within the context of the national New Deal, showing how national officials, responding to the limitations of the American central state, utilized the planning and operational capacities of local governments to meet their own imperatives; and how national initiatives fed back into subnational politics, redrawing the bounds of what was possible in local government as well as altering the strength and orientation of local political organizations. The dissertation thus seeks not only to provide a more robust account of this crucial passage in the political history of America’s largest city, but also to shed new light on the history of the national New Deal—in particular, its relation to the urban social reform movements of the Progressive Era, the long-term effects of short-lived programs such as work relief and price control, and the roles of federalism and localism in New Deal statecraft. -
Henry Wallace Wallace Served Served on On
Papers of HENRY A. WALLACE 1 941-1 945 Accession Numbers: 51~145, 76-23, 77-20 The papers were left at the Commerce Department by Wallace, accessioned by the National Archives and transferred to the Library. This material is ·subject to copyright restrictions under Title 17 of the U.S. Code. Quantity: 41 feet (approximately 82,000 pages) Restrictions : The papers contain material restricted in accordance with Executive Order 12065, and material which _could be used to harass, em barrass or injure living persons has been closed. Related Materials: Papers of Paul Appleby Papers of Mordecai Ezekiel Papers of Gardner Jackson President's Official File President's Personal File President's Secretary's File Papers of Rexford G. Tugwell Henry A. Wallace Papers in the Library of Congress (mi crofi 1m) Henry A. Wallace Papers in University of Iowa (microfilm) '' Copies of the Papers of Henry A. Wallace found at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, the Library of Congress and the University of Iow~ are available on microfilm. An index to the Papers has been published. Pl ease consult the archivist on duty for additional information. I THE UNIVERSITY OF lOWA LIBRAlU ES ' - - ' .·r. .- . -- ........... """"' ': ;. "'l ' i . ,' .l . .·.· :; The Henry A. Wallace Papers :and Related Materials .- - --- · --. ~ '· . -- -- .... - - ·- - ·-- -------- - - Henry A. Walla.ce Papers The principal collection of the papers of (1836-1916), first editor of Wallaces' Farmer; Henry Agard \Vallace is located in the Special his father, H enry Cantwell Wallace ( 1866- Collc:ctions Department of The University of 1924), second editor of the family periodical and Iowa Libraries, Iowa City. \ Val bee was born Secretary of Agriculture ( 1921-192-l:): and his October 7, 1888, on a farm in Adair County, uncle, Daniel Alden Wallace ( 1878-1934), editor Iowa, was graduated from Iowa State University, of- The Farmer, St. -
Farm Security Administation Photographs in Indiana
FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION PHOTOGRAPHS IN INDIANA A STUDY GUIDE Roy Stryker Told the FSA Photographers “Show the city people what it is like to live on the farm.” TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 The FSA - OWI Photographic Collection at the Library of Congress 1 Great Depression and Farms 1 Roosevelt and Rural America 2 Creation of the Resettlement Administration 3 Creation of the Farm Security Administration 3 Organization of the FSA 5 Historical Section of the FSA 5 Criticisms of the FSA 8 The Indiana FSA Photographers 10 The Indiana FSA Photographs 13 City and Town 14 Erosion of the Land 16 River Floods 16 Tenant Farmers 18 Wartime Stories 19 New Deal Communities 19 Photographing Indiana Communities 22 Decatur Homesteads 23 Wabash Farms 23 Deshee Farms 24 Ideal of Agrarian Life 26 Faces and Character 27 Women, Work and the Hearth 28 Houses and Farm Buildings 29 Leisure and Relaxation Activities 30 Afro-Americans 30 The Changing Face of Rural America 31 Introduction This study guide is meant to provide an overall history of the Farm Security Administration and its photographic project in Indiana. It also provides background information, which can be used by students as they carry out the curriculum activities. Along with the curriculum resources, the study guide provides a basis for studying the history of the photos taken in Indiana by the FSA photographers. The FSA - OWI Photographic Collection at the Library of Congress The photographs of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) - Office of War Information (OWI) Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress form a large-scale photographic record of American life between 1935 and 1944. -
A Planners' Planner: John Friedmann's Quest for a General
A Planners’ Planner: John Friedmann’s Quest for a General Theory of Planning The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Sanyal, Bish. "A Planners’ Planner: John Friedmann’s Quest for a General Theory of Planning." Journal of the American Planning Association 84, 2 (April 2018): 179-191 As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2018.1427616 Publisher Informa UK Limited Version Author's final manuscript Citable link https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124150 Terms of Use Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Detailed Terms http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Bish Sanyal A Planners’ Planner (2018) A Planners Planner: John Friedmann s Quest for a General Theory of Planning (2018). Journal of the American Planning Association, 84(2), 179-191. doi:10.1080/01944363.2018.1427616 A Planners’ Planner: John Friedmann’s quest for a general theory of planning Bish Sanyal Massachusetts Institute of Technology This paper honors the memory of Professor John Friedmann by reflecting on his professional contributions in two ways. First, the paper provides an overview of Friedmann’s career as a planner and planning academic, which spanned six decades and three continents, and highlights how a confluence of factors led to a paradigm shift in his thinking regarding the role of planning in social transformation. Second, the paper assesses Friedmann’s position on three issues of importance for practitioners—namely, problem formulation, the role of technical knowledge, and organizational learning. The paper concludes that the establishment of UCLA’s planning program is a testament to Friedmann’s critical view of planning practice, which posed fundamental challenges to conventional thinking. -
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Mr. Halleck’s New Deal: Congressman Charles Halleck and the Limits to Reform ROBERT L. FULLER harles Halleck joked after his election in 1935 that, as the sole CRepublican representative from Indiana, he held his caucus in a phone booth. However, over time Congressman Halleck rose through party ranks in the House from “waterboy” to majority leader when Republicans regained control of Congress in 1946.1 Because the GOP also won a majority of seats in the Senate, and many Southern Democrats proved cooperative in advancing Republican policies, Republicans stood a very good chance of implementing their program for America. Congressman Halleck, who had railed against the New Deal since he first took a seat in the House, stood in position to do something about it in 1947. Yet, once in office, the Republicans and Southern Democrats, supposedly so dead set against the New Deal, made very few proposals and offered hardly any legislation to alter New Deal reforms in any significant way. Aside from changing labor laws, they made no effort to overturn the legislative achievements of the 1930s that lasted longer than the Depression. Majority Leader Halleck, __________________________ Robert L. Fuller holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia. He is currently work- ing on a monograph about the banking crisis of the Great Depression. 1Charles A. Halleck to “Jim,” March 20, 1936, box 17, Charles A. Halleck Papers, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington (henceforth CAH). INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, 103 (March 2007) ᭧ 2007, Trustees of Indiana University. MR. HALLECK’S NEW DEAL 67 Charles Halleck Courtesy Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington his Republican colleagues, and their allies among the Democrats only tinkered with a few of the reforms that remained in place after the Supreme Court ruled them constitutionally sound, because by and large Halleck and other Republicans supported most New Deal reforms. -
Academic Freedom and the Modern University
— — — — — — — — — AcAdemic Freedom And — — — — — — the modern University — — — — — — — — the experience oF the — — — — — — University oF chicA go — — — — — — — — — AcAdemic Freedom And the modern University the experience oF the University oF chicA go by john w. boyer 1 academic freedom introdUction his little book on academic freedom at the University of Chicago first appeared fourteen years ago, during a unique moment in our University’s history.1 Given the fundamental importance of freedom of speech to the scholarly mission T of American colleges and universities, I have decided to reissue the book for a new generation of students in the College, as well as for our alumni and parents. I hope it produces a deeper understanding of the challenges that the faculty of the University confronted over many decades in establishing Chicago’s national reputation as a particu- larly steadfast defender of the principle of academic freedom. Broadly understood, academic freedom is a principle that requires us to defend autonomy of thought and expression in our community, manifest in the rights of our students and faculty to speak, write, and teach freely. It is the foundation of the University’s mission to discover, improve, and disseminate knowledge. We do this by raising ideas in a climate of free and rigorous debate, where those ideas will be challenged and refined or discarded, but never stifled or intimidated from expres- sion in the first place. This principle has met regular challenges in our history from forces that have sought to influence our curriculum and research agendas in the name of security, political interests, or financial 1. John W. -
UC Berkeley Berkeley Planning Journal
UC Berkeley Berkeley Planning Journal Title The Puerto Rican Industrial Policy Debate of 1940-1947: The Limits of Dependent Colonial Growth Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nf603h8 Journal Berkeley Planning Journal, 3(1) ISSN 1047-5192 Author Hernandez-Marquez, Reinerio Publication Date 1986 DOI 10.5070/BP33113191 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California THE PUERTO RICAN INDUSTRIAL POLICY DEBATE OF 1940-1947: THE LIMITS OF DEPENDENT COLONIAL GROWTH Reinerio Hernandez-Marquez Introduction The rapid development of the Puerto Rican economy fo llowing the Second World War provides a unique model of central planning within a dependent colonial economy. This project will present a brief overview of the conflicting socio-economic and political fo rces which initiated and guided the establishment of central planning in Puerto Rico during the period 1940-4 7. The goal of this presentation is to trace the interactions between the key actors and institutions, in the political and socio-economic environment of 1940-47, which led to a policy re-orientation of central planning in 194 7. This re-orientation defined Puerto Rican economic development not as an autonomous agricultural and industrial program based on both domestic and fo reign capital, but instead, economic development was viewed as a massive industrialization program based solely on private fo reign capital. Puerto Rico's industrialization program, Operation Bootstrap, was based on labor intensive, multinational branch plant industries. During Operation Bootstrap, Puerto Rico experienced extraordinary growth rates until 1971. In 194 7, the island's population was overwhelmingly poor and involved in agricultural production; by 1968, Puerto Rico had become one of the twenty most highly industrialized areas of the world. -
Engineers, Economists and Recurring Energy Theories of Value
FROM TECHNOCRACY TO NET ENERGY ANALYSIS: ENGINEERS, ECONOMISTS AND RECURRING ENERGY THEORIES OF VALUE by Ernst R. Berndt WP#1353-82 September 1982 [R] ____________________________1__11 FROM TECHNOCRACY TO NET ENERGY ANALYSIS: ENGINEERS, ECONOMISTS AND RECURRING ENERGY THEORIES OF VALUE by Ernst R. Berndt Massachusetts Institute of Technology Revised September 1982 Studies in Energy and the American Economy Discussion Paper No. 11 MIT-EL 81-065WP Research supported by the Department of Energy, under Contract EX-76-A-01-2295, Task Order 67, is gratefully acknowledged, as is support for earlier research on this topic provided by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the M.I.T. Center for Energy Policy Research. Discussions with participants of the Energy Policy Seminar at the M.I.T. Center for Energy Policy Research are also gratefully acknowledged, as are the helpful comments of Morris Adelman, Donald Blake, Harrison Brown, Robert Evans, Bruce Hannon, Paul Heyne, M. King Hubbert, Ralph Huenemann, J.R. Norsworthy, Paul Samuelson, Anthony Scott, Kirk Smith, Peter Temin and David Wood. Bibliographical assistance from librarians at the City of Calgary, New York University, M.I.T., City of Seattle, University of British Columbia, and the City of Vancouver is greatly appreciated. Forthcoming in Anthony D. Scott et al., eds., Studies in Natural Resource Economics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. I. Introduction "Pragmatically, a way to begin would be to set up a capability in government to budget according to flows of energy rather than money. Energy is the all-pervasive underlying currency of our society."1 - U.S. -
4 a Regular Guy
4 A Regular Guy The collapse of the American economy, the Great Depression, and the Roosevelt administration’s response to it in the form of the New Deal represents one of the most appealing, fascinating, and intensively inter- rogated episodes in the history of the United States. The sources of con›ict in New Deal historiography have shifted many times in the three-quarters of a century since Franklin Roosevelt was ‹rst elected to the presidency, but there has never been a time when the New Deal was not in some way controversial. In the 1950s, for example, Edgar Robin- son charged that the New Deal was a failed experiment in state socialism, while others argued that the New Deal was a precious af‹rmation of democratic values at a time when dictatorships threatened to engulf the world. Historians broadly appreciative of the New Deal have neverthe- less been critical: Rexford Tugwell, himself a New Dealer, bemoaned the fact that early enthusiasm for economic planning was not pursued; James MacGregor Burns argued that Roosevelt blundered in putting political expediency before the noble objective of fashioning a truly lib- eral Democratic Party.1 In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and William E. Leuchtenburg, both of whom were liberal activists as well as historians, produced canonical works that—for their narrative grace and synthetic authority, respectively—are unlikely to be bettered. After them came historians in search of alternative interpretations. New Left scholars argued that the New Deal was a species of corporate liberalism; labor historians debated whether the New Deal sti›ed rank-and-‹le mil- 79 80 Mr. -
Berkeley Planning Journal Volume 20
UC Berkeley Berkeley Planning Journal Title Roosevelt and Rexford: Resettlement and its Results Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1277865c Journal Berkeley Planning Journal, 20(1) ISSN 1047-5192 Author Perkins, Kristin L. Publication Date 2007 DOI 10.5070/BP320111906 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California 25 Roosevelt and Rexford: Resettlement and its Results Kristin L. Perkins Abstract The Greenbelt Towns program emerged in the late 1930s as a novel demonstration of suburban town planning in three communities: Greenbelt, Maryland; Greendale, Wisconsin; and Greenhills, Ohio. This paper discusses the scattered federal programs and policies from which the Greenbelt Towns emerged and briefly describes two other new town precedents, Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City and the Regional Planning Association of America’s involvement in Radburn, New Jersey. It further examines the physical and social development of the Greenbelt towns, the demonstration’s eventual failure, and how the program influenced and continues to shape government involvement in urban development and housing. Introduction The United States emerged from the boom years of the 1920s to face the Great Depression and hardship it had never known. By 1933 nearly a quarter of the nation’s population was unemployed and up to 60 percent lived in poverty. Cities were in crisis as unemployed and impoverished people constructed shantytowns in public spaces and pleaded for government relief. City planning had yet to achieve prominence and, in the face of economic collapse, was viewed by some as a less than critical task. Though many planners were un- and underemployed in the early 1930s, President Roosevelt’s New Deal provided sudden opportunities for planners to address the country’s economic problems through both urban and rural programs. -
Rethinking Politics: Consumers and the Public Good During the “Jazz Age”
Lawrence B. Glickman Rethinking Politics: Consumers and the Public Good during the “Jazz Age” he 1920s are often understood as Whatever critical spirit remained from a time of economic abundance the previous decade transmogrified Tand political quiescence. itself from progressive activism to the Frequently the decade’s supposed cynicism characteristic of the “lost political lethargy and conservatism is generation.” Thus Paul Carter entitles seen as a consequence of its supposed the introductory chapter of his survey affluence. With progressive energies text on the decade, “Of Bohemians and exhausted—weakened by World Consumers.” This title characterizes War I and the domestic repression the two sides of declining political that accompanied and followed engagement: the cynical artiste and the it—and with the economy booming, solipsistic shopper (1). Americans, in this stereotypical Indeed, the 1920s did represent a vision, turned inward. Enjoying the takeoff period for consumer society. private pleasures afforded by the During the decade, pundits, scholars, new affluence of the “jazz age,” and many ordinary Americans claimed they displayed either indifference to be observing an epochal and or cynicism to the well-being of the multifaceted transformation whose key public sphere. feature was a shift from production to Commentators often speak of the consumption. While a robust consumer rise of “consumer society” in the 1920s economy had been developing since as a way to encapsulate these political at least the market revolution of the and economic transformations. They early nineteenth-century, several frequently use the term to explain elements converged in the 1920s the economic vibrancy and political to create a fully mature consumer passivity that they take to characterize society.