... 1930s, shaking the foundations of Western capitalism and the society based upon it (Roark). President Calvin Coolidge had said during the long prosperity of the 1920s that "The business of America is business." Despite the seeming business prosperity of the 1920s, however, there were serious economic weak spots, a chief one being a depression in the agricultural area. Also depressed were such ... was abandoned after the Supreme Court declared the NRA unconstitutional (Garraty 13). Roosevelt's second administration gave more emphasis to public works and other government expenditures as a ...

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