By Tim McNeese
ISBN-10: 1438132182
ISBN-13: 9781438132181
ISBN-10: 1604133570
ISBN-13: 9781604133578
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He promised to lower tariffs and provide adequate relief for those out of work. He said he would go to Washington as president and summon a “brain trust” of experts to help him formulate his economic strategy, including university professors, economists, and social planners. Following FDR’s speech the delegates cheered wildly, while a band played a song that had been written in 1929—the year of the Crash—for a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) movie, Chasing Rainbows. It was a tune destined to become the Democrats’ theme through election day: Happy days are here again!
The CCC boys signed on for six months of service with the option to “re-enlist” for a total of two years. They were paid $30 a month and the CCC sent the lion’s share (typically $25) back home to support their family. Often the boys put the left-over $5 on an account in their camp’s canteen, where they could buy soda, candy bars, toiletries, and writing stationery to let their family back home know how they were doing. They needed little money for themselves. In many ways, life in the CCC mirrored the military.
They stocked streams with fish and made improvements at many Civil War battlefields. In Alaska some CCC members of the Tlingit Indian tribe restored totem poles. However, although great results were achieved by the CCC in making improvements in the nation’s parks, the program had little impact on the overall economy. S. Army with a pool from which to recruit future non-commissioned officers, but critics of the CCC around Washington. He drove to the Bonus Marchers’ camp and told her that Franklin wanted her to talk to the vets.