The Depression: Ma Perkins and Eleanor Roosevlet

By scammack

  • FDR crippled with polio

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    Great Depression

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    Income dropped 40%

  • NBC Radio moved into Rockefeller Center

    Margaret Cuthbert wrote hopefully "might become a great national headquarters for women.'
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    FDR's Presidency

  • Florence Allen became first federal appeals court judge

  • 6 million+ farms had no electricity, 20% in Missouri had sinks with drains, 7% of Kentucky had indoor bathrooms

  • +50% of daytime radio programming was melodramas

  • Restrictions on birthcontrol removed

    Birthrates fell so low that for the first time in American history, the nation was not replacing itself.

  • Gone With the Wind is released

  • Approval of Eleanor Roosevelt 67%

    A Gallup poll showed that 67% of the public approved of Eleanor's performance as First Lady. This was more than those who supported her husband at the time.

  • FDR died

    Frances Perkins and Eleanor Roosevelt "sat on a bench like two schoolgirls" and cried.