American Decades
The Proceedings and Transactions of a Conference of the Mayors of the State of Michigan
Proceedings
By: Mayors and Other Municipal Executives of the Cities of the State of Michigan
Date: May 18, 1932
Source: The Proceedings and Transactions of a Conference of the Mayors and Other Municipal Executives of the State of Michigan, Held at the Invitation and in the Office of Honorable Frank Murphy, Mayor of the City of Detroit, Michigan, on Wednesday, May 18, 1932. Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Mich., 4, 5, 11–13, 15, 16, 38, 39, 40.
About the Author: Frank Murphy (1890–1949) was a compassionate and activist mayor of Detroit from 1930 to 1933. Taking office at the outset of the Depression he led the city through the most desperate years of the economic crisis. His courageous battle against the entrenched conservative approaches to dealing with the Depression won the attention of the nation and grudging respect from his...
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- Campaign Speech at Madison Square Garden, New York City
- "On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program"
- Letter to Major General Stuart Heintzelman
- "American Fascism in Embryo"
- "Carry Out the Command of the Lord"
- Harry Hopkins Press Conference, February 16, 1934
- "Federal Emergency Relief"
- Old Age Revolving Pensions
- "On Social Security"
- "What's the Matter with Congress?"
- "I Have Seen War.…I Hate War"
- "Hemingway Reports Spain"
- The Debate over Isolation
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
