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Hidden threads of history : Wilson through Roosevelt

Title: Hidden threads of history : Wilson through Roosevelt / by Louis B. Wehle ; with an introduction by Allan Nevins.
Author: Wehle, Louis B. (Louis Brandeis), 1880-1959
Publication: New York : Macmillan, 1953.

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Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971

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300 pages; 22 cm

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Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part One: The First World War and Readjustment -- 1. The delayed plunge into war and its production problems -- Pacifism and unpreparedness -- Mobilizing production -- 2. Army and Navy land construction -- Army camp-construction difficulties -- The cost-plus-percentage contract in World War I -- Adventures of the cost-plus-percentage contract since World War I -- Pushing cantonment and camp construction from the outer circle -- Starting work without appropriations or contracts -- The labor problem -- The Baker-Gompers strike agreement -- Avoiding compulsory arbitration -- Baker and Gompers -- Labor adjustment goes into action -- Roosevelt brings in the Navy -- Speeding construction from the inner circle -- Labor day: the camps are ready -- 3. Adjustment through anti-strike agreements in shipbuilding for wilson and in other war labor -- Negotiating with Roosevelt's help -- Organizing the shipbuilding labor adjustment board -- adjusting labor disputes of longshoremen and of saddlery and harness workers -- 4. Adjustments without anti-strike agreements with labor -- Wilson warns against compulsory arbitration -- Attempts at anti-strike adjustment in munitions and supplies -- The president's short-lived mediation commission -- Dilemma of Taft-Walsh board in supplies and services -- Crisis in railroad labor: government control Lane and Mcadoo -- Last attempt at adjustment in munitions and supplies -- The war council and the armistice -- 5. Labor policies neglected, lost, or needed today -- 6. Revival of trade with Europe after World War I -- The war finance corporation finances exports -- w.f.c. personnel -- cranking the trade machinery -- a glimpse of w.f.c.'s extra-curricular work and sequels -- aftermaths of W.F.C. -- Part Two: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Entrance on the National Scene -- 7. Roosevelt's 1920 candidacy for the vice presidency -- Hoover the man, but of what party? -- diagnosis of hoover -- the 1920 cox-Roosevelt campaign, and after -- Roosevelt's aspirations surmount poliomyelitis -- Roosevelt as candidate for governor -- Did the New York Sun elect Roosevelt governor? -- 8. Roosevelt's governorship a prelude to the presidency -- Liquor control -- Water power in New York -- The mayor Walker episode -- 9. The presidential campaign of 1932 -- The Scripps-Howard press -- Enlisting organized labor -- F.D.R.'s card index -- 10. Pre-inauguration international problems -- Roosevelt acquires a tutor in foreign affairs: William C. Bullitt -- The question of recognizing Russia -- Bullitt joins Roosevelt at Albany -- Roosevelt's intuitional traits -- Pre-inauguration studies of European problems -- A White House novitiate for the president-elect? -- 11. Preludes to the 1933 inauguration -- Original plan for the cabinet, its failure, and some probable results -- Hull's handicap -- glass eliminates himself from the treasury -- Roosevelt recieves the gospel of the initiative -- Part Three: Roosevelt as President -- 12. Initial emergency measures -- Roosevelt's light touch -- 13. Roosevelt works to preserve the railroads as private enterprise -- the rails, 1932-1938 -- The rail crisis, 1938 -- again, the rails, 1939 -- 14. Roosevelt's early policies on Tennessee Valley water power -- The general background -- Enter T.V.A. with Arthur Morgan and Lilienthal -- the T. V.A. companies conflict -- Roosevelt proposes a T.V.A.-companies power pool -- Arthur Morgan versus Lilienthal -- The White House power-pooling conference -- 15. Roosevelt abandons tennessee basin power pooling -- pooling's rough road -- were the anti-pooling pressures spontaneous? -- The court's temporary injunction against T. V.A. and its results -- What motivated Roosevelt's pooling proposal? -- F.D.R. ousts Arthur Morgan and gives Lilienthal control -- 16. The supreme court leaves T. V.A. in the saddle without certifying the horse -- Act one-judge Gore's court -- Act two-the circuit court of appeals -- Act three-the hill -- Act four-the three judge district court -- Act five-the supreme court -- Some thoughts on act five -- The shift in the court's personnel, 1936-1939 -- Judicial reluctance and constitutional drift -- Act six-the Tennessee Valley without commonwealth -- 17. Influence of Roosevelt's public-power policies since the T. V.A.-commonwealth controversy -- New federal hydro-electric projects -- The federal Bonneville Power Administration (B.P.A.) -- contrasts between T. V.A. and B.P.A. -- How far are increases in power and decreases in rates attributable to Roosevelt? -- Prospective projects and their financing -- Surplus interchange pooling since 1939 -- The northwestern interchange power pool -- Appraisals of T. V.A. for history and biography -- 18. Roosevelt in his second term -- The 1937 supreme court bill -- Public works relief and lending-spending policies, mid-1939 -- The neutrality resolutions -- visualizing World War II and Roosevelt's 1940 candidacy -- 19. Sunset and evening star -- My last meeting with Roosevelt -- Roosevelt's final account as an instrumentality -- The domestic affairs account -- Some further factors in a consolidated trial balance -- Part Four: Post-war Reconstruction in Europe -- 20. Operating under the Churchill-Roosevelt agreements -- Typical aspects of the Dutch ordeal -- Still unsettled questions of reconstruction policy -- The United States economic mission to the Netherlands -- Apportioning food and supplies fairly -- Building an economic mission -- London -- The London co-ordinating committee co-ordinates -- British fear of United States commercial dominance -- Supply programming in London and Brussels -- Religion and supplies in Holland -- American pumps and Dutch pride -- Tin plate, milk, and Gerard Bos -- 21. At grips with Holland's reconstruction -- Brussels, Eindhoven, and agriculture -- Railroads in southern Holland -- Fighting Dutch starvation -- Return to liberated Holland -- Dutch radicals -- Rescue -- Holland's lost inland boats -- International economic co-operation and peace -- Part Five: Retrospect and prospect.

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53009519

OCLC

ocm01068730
1068730
SCSB-314772

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Princeton University Library