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Alf Landon: Kansas governor who ran as republican against FDR and lost 1936 election
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Bob Hope: For nearly six decades, he traveled the globe to entertain U.S. troops. U.S.O. show, United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (born in 1903)
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Charles Coughlin: A radio priest who was anti-Semetic and anti-New Deal. He catered away some support from FDR., In 1930 he began radio broadcasts of his sermons, into which he gradually injected reactionary political statements and anti-Semitic rhetoric.
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Douglas MacArthur: used force to drive out Bonus Army marchers who stayed in Washington; he set loose on them guns, tanks, and tear gas, causing many injuries and three deaths
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Dwight Eisenhower: U.S army leader that attacked the bonus army alongside Douglas Macarthur
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Francis Townsend: liberal reformer that wanted the government to grant a pension of $200 a month to every American over 60 years old
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: President of the US during Great Depression and World War II, Promised a "New Deal" to put an end to laissez faire .. first to use weekly "fireside chats", got the country out of the Great Depression by developing the New Deal.
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Herbert Hoover: 31st President of the United States, president during the Great Depressionn, 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed, he promised the end of poverty right before the great depression, and Hoover was defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)
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Huey Long: Louisianna Senator who opposed FDR's New Deal and came up with a , "Share the Wealth" wants to give $5k to all families ,was later assasinated
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Hugo Black: Justice who argued the First Amendment protects all publications, even wholly obscene ones., appointed as a Supreme Court Justice in 1937 by Roosevelt
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Jack Benny: United States comedian known for his timeing and delivery and self-effacing humor
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Orson Welles: had a Halloween program on CBS in 1938. His dramatization of H.G. Wells' War of the World terrified and panicked listeners (some believed it to be real).
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Thomas Dewey: Republican presidential nominee in 1944 who failed in his effort to deny FDR a fourth term
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Walter Waters: Unemployed worker from Oregon who led the Bonus Army
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Wendell Willkie: He led the opposition of utilities companies to competition from the federally funded Tennessee Valley Authority. His criticism of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt led to his dark-horse victory at the 1940 Republican Party presidential convention. After a vigorous campaign, he won only 10 states but received more than 22 million popular votes, the largest number received by a Republican to that time.
