American Decades
Republican Criticism of New Deal Economics
Speech to the Union League Club of Chicago, Illinois
Speech
By: Robert A. Taft
Date: January 5, 1940
Source: Taft, Robert A. Speech to the Union League Club of Chicago, Illinois. January 5, 1940. Reprinted in Clarence E. Wunderlin, Jr., ed., The Papers of Robert A. Taft, vol. 2, 1939–1944. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2001, 104–05, 107–09.
Speech to the Lions Club of Wilmington, Delaware
Speech
By: Robert A. Taft
Date: March 1, 1940
Source: Taft, Robert A. Speech to the Lions Club of Wilmington, Delaware. March 1, 1940. Reprinted in Clarence E. Wunderlin, Jr., ed., The Papers of Robert A. Taft, vol. 2, 1939–1944 Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2001, 120–21.
About the Author: Robert A. Taft (1889–1953), son of Republican President William Howard Taft,...
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1940's Business and the Economy Primary Sources
- Republican Criticism of New Deal Economics
- "Arsenal of Democracy"
- Fireside Chat on the Cost of Living and the Progress of the War
- The War Labor Board and What it Means to You
- "The Nine Hundred and Twenty-ninth Press Conference"
- "Seizure!"
- The Bretton Woods Proposals
- "It Must Not Happen Again"
- Statement before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency
- Investigation of Petroleum Resources
- "Housing and Full Employment"
- "We Back America"
- Truman Defends Taft-Hartley Act Veto
- Photographs of Supermarkets in the 1940s
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
