In a scathing address, former Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley tore into the specter of communism, urging Americans to dismiss the ‘hobgoblins of this Winter of discontent’ and focus on the real issue: President Roosevelt’s New Deal. Speaking at the National Public Housing Conference annual dinner in New York on May 8, 1934, Moley declared that the basic ideas behind the administration’s policies were derived from American business and agriculture, not from the ‘doctrinaire views’ of Russia or Italy.
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Key Facts
- State: National
- Category: Public Corruption
- Era: Historical
- Source: Library of Congress — Chronicling America ↗
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