World News Insights
1-3 Minute Gist

All Topics Article

Notable & Quotable

Wall Street Journal Original article ›

Keywords:

LyrArc Article Gist
The distinction Walter Lippman had drawn in 1939 between New Dealers who were interested in social reform and making the system work better and the New Dealers interested in reducing the power of private business interests in the economic system. Their different interests made it harder to work out a social peace in which business and government developed an healthy partnership to deal with the crisis. These New Dealers clung to taxes, collective bargaining and labor legislation to reduce the power of business interests and altering the balance of social policy. Whereas the reformers only saw spending as the instrument for a recovery, and as a means of improving the living conditions of the people. How does that compare with today?

Walter Lippman on the Reformers and the Radicals in the New Dealers under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

04/13/2009

The situation in 1939 is described by Lippman, with New Dealer Radicals looking for changing the balance in social policy, and the New Dealer Reformers looking to preserve private initiative with improvements over the previous system and correcting glaring inadequacies.

Grouped Articles

Notable & Quotable

Wall Street Journal 04/13/2009

From 1889 to 2014, Political Parallels Abound

Wall Street Journal 07/08/2014


Support LyrArc

We took a different way to help millions around the world build educated informed mindsets that affects and shapes their lives. For a future that is open, global and digital, with everyone having access to high quality information. We believe in the renewal of America, renewal of Europe, the renewal of India, the rest of Asia, Latin America and Africa. The renewal of our supply chains, health, education, infrastructure, as we rebuild our countries after the pandemic. Literacy and knowledge we believe cannot thrive and grow in a world of web bots, web crawlers, or AI. This requires human curiosity, human learning, and human imagination. We take as inspiration the saying- “One has to be free, and as broad as sky. One has to have a mind that is crystal clear, only then can truth shine in it.” Every contribution whether big or small is precious- in this crisis and ahead.

Support Lyrarc from as small as $1


Copyright © 2006 - 2026 Intelilinks LLC
Terms and Conditions | Copyright Policy | Privacy Policy | Contact Us