Then suddenly the atmosphere changed, A series of violent attacks were launched by Government spokesmen in which business was vnmereiful castigated and held responsible for the current recession.
The most v pus Onslaught of all came from the Secretary of the In terior, Mr. Harold Ickes, who subscribed to the theory of an econom best-seller that "sixty families" controlled America. These 60 families, thei arts filled with bitterness against the New Deal Government which sought to substitute the rule of the peoples' representatives for their own usurped authority, had deliberately led the country into a recession.. pital had staged a sit-down stu Mr. Robert m. Assistant Attorney-General, charged with antitrust enforcement, as just as violent, and though he could not speak with'the autho: of a Cabinet member, he spoke with the assurance of one singled out by the President to carry on the New Deal torch when the older generation had retired.
The Court opposition (with some riges) found a new rallying point. They impatiently turned down the President's reform programme and demanded that business be aided.
The President was blamed for the decline in production and employ: ment on the greunds that he had destroyed the confidence of the invester by government competition with and government interference in business, and by encouraging or permitting labour to iner labour costs without any regard for economic balance.
Congress instead of hastening to pass the President's reform measures howed itself anxious to modify tax laws which business disliked. The last straw which broke the President's patience was the defeat in the House of the wages and hours bill It appeared to the President that his efforts to ce-operate with business had merely led him into the false position of accepting full responsibility for the business decline, It the New Deal was to be aved and the President's authority restored something drastic was required. The conservative visers, Joseph K Ecoles, Daniel nedy Rope had bad advice Japanese Soldiers and Chinese In Misunderstanding
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