Then i think if you were a doctor or a nurse you could get a car and that was it, five years or so. Okay. Thank you so very much. I so appreciate your time. Thankim gray brecon. Im founder and project scholar of the living new deal, which is sort of nominally based in the bay, although now we are spreading out and it began actually about 15 years ago. I was to write a book about what the wpa did in california, and then you fall down this rabbit hole and you find that theres everything else. And its a its a universe. So now what we are is a National Team that is identifying, mapping and interpreting the physical legacy of, the new deal, which is absolutely colossal. Its all around us. Its indispensable, able, but we dont see it. And thats accidental. So what were doing, we have a very active chapter in new york city, some of whom are here today. And what were doing is excavating a lost civilization. Its what i call the lost ethical language of new deal, public works. These objects which
Didnt make didnt switch. So i think the last domestic produced came off the runway i think it like i think was may 42. But by after pearl harbor, they had, of course, Popular Support to get it only. So theyre only making cars for the military and. Then i think if you were a doctor or a nurse you could get a car and that was it, five years or so. Okay. Thank you so very much. I so appreciate your time. Thankim gray brecon. Im founder and project scholar of the living new deal, which is sort of nominally based in the bay, although now we are spreading out and it began actually about 15 years ago. I was to write a book about what the wpa did in california, and then you fall down this rabbit hole and you find that theres everything else. And its a its a universe. So now what we are is a National Team that is identifying, mapping and interpreting the physical legacy of, the new deal, which is absolutely colossal. Its all around us. Its indispensable, able, but we dont see it. And thats acci
its that limit, house speaker kevin mccarthy and republican congress, they are risking your economic statement that stability, all before spending cuts even though this has nothing to do with news spending. president, biden he is not negotiating on this. so, what happens now? and the president says he has no regrets when it comes to the handling of documents found in a delaware home because he is cooperating fully with the justice department. critics say he is giving too many questions unanswered. we will get into why it is consistent with president biden s approach to the department of justice. meanwhile, one of my least favorite topics, donald trump. okay a judge, a former president to pay nearly 1 million dollars in fines for filing a frivolous lawsuit against his political foes. why one payout will be particularly painful for for mr. trump and at this time it could be targeted from using the course for future political gains. i am simone sanders thompson, and i have somet
This 90minute event. Good evening, everyone. Welcome back to the hilltop. Welcome back to smu, to dallas hall. And also, a joint program tonight between our center for president ial history and our klemmant center for southwest studies. Always exciting when the two History Centers here can come together and its really wonderful for us, chronologically at least, the younger partner, you will, the klemmant center, has been the leading center for southwest studies for at least a generation, so we are still in our toddler phase, look up to them, and they also baby sit us, so it works out really quite nicely. Im really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series looking at history and president ial history, especially since this one in particular, our talk tonight, has of course such a dallas flare to it. One might even say its fundamentally a dallas story. Of course, we all know, especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963, how mu
For 40 years, united auto worker president s walter reuther, Leonard Woodcock and Douglas Fraser won higher pay for their members. Why in 1979 would fraser agree to take less . Employers and labor unions like buyers and sellers, try to make the best deal for themselves. Labor and management how do they come to terms . With economic analyst richard gill well examine that question on this edition of economics usa. Im david schoumacher. Fewer than 1 3 of American Workers are covered by union contract. But organized labors strength at the economys pressure points the big smokestack industries, the arteries of transportation and communication make them a force to be reckoned with. For more than 75 years labor unions have been a fact of American Economic le. How did they get power . We are childn ofmmignts. The largest number came here around the turn of the century. Millions, most of them jewish or italian, unskilled and uneducated settled in new york citys crowded tenements. What kind of w