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The Fair Deal was a set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in 1945 and in his January 1949 State of the Union Address.
a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission; a farm aid program; increased public housing; new TVA-style public works projects; the establishment of a new Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; the repeal of the Taft–Hartley Act, regulating the activities of labor unions; an increase in the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour
In his 1949 State of the Union address unveiling the Fair Deal, Truman reiterated his desire to pass comprehensive housing legislation. [6] The Senate had successfully passed bills allocating federal aid for public housing in 1946 and 1948, although these efforts died in the House of Representatives on both occasions. [4]
The conservative coalition of Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats played a major role in blocking passage of the Fair Deal, but the inability of liberals to agree on the details of many programs also contributed to legislative gridlock. [214] Only one of the major Fair Deal bills, the Housing Act of 1949, was ever enacted. [213]
In 1890, the phrase started to appear in headlines, e.g., "Give China a Square Deal" [6] and "Not a Square Deal". [ 7 ] An early usage of "square deal" by Theodore Roosevelt in the press occurred in 1899, when The New York Times quoted his saying, "I did not appoint a man because he came from Dr. Wall's or any other church; I gave each man a ...
Solidly based upon the New Deal tradition in its advocacy of wide-ranging social legislation, the Fair Deal differed enough to claim a separate identity. The depression did not return after the war and the Fair Deal faced prosperity and an optimistic future. The Fair Dealers thought in terms of abundance rather than depression scarcity.
The Liberal Democrat leader did circuits of a field in Wiltshire in a JCB tractor alongside parliamentary candidate for Chippenham Sarah Gibson.
Elections were held on November 5, 1946, and elected the members of the 80th United States Congress.In the first election after World War II, incumbent President Harry S. Truman (who took office on April 12, 1945, upon the death of his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt) and the Democratic Party suffered large losses.