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New deal

noun

The economic policy of F. D. Roosevelt.

The historic period (1933-1940) in the United States during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented.

A reapportioning of something.

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"New deal" Quotes from Famous Books

... to another question we faced at the war's end. Would we take up again, and carry forward, the great projects of social welfare—so badly needed, so long overdue—that the New Deal had introduced into our national life? Would our Government continue to have a heart for the people, or was the progress of the New Deal to be halted in the aftermath of war as decisively as the progress of Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom had ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... you to know the truth, Mr. Kendrick," she was saying, "if only that it will help you to understand how serious I consider the news which Jimmy brings—this new deal that is pending, I mean. The Recorder must act at once to stop it. It is better that your uncle face the charges as they now stand than to have this last and blackest mark against him. I hope ...

— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse

... a great deal we know, Ruiz Rios," broke out Bruce. "You hold the upper hand just now but there's a new deal coming!" ...

— Daughter of the Sun - A Tale of Adventure • Jackson Gregory

... that we all wanted the opportunity of a little quiet thought to examine and assimilate in a mental picture the crowding events of the hundred days which had been devoted to the starting of the wheels of the New Deal. ...

— The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

... unsteady. Dorothy saw this in a glance, and her own face hardened unresponsively. The situation was clearly enough defined in her own mind. Von Holzen had destroyed the prescription before her on purpose. It was only a move in that game of life which is always extending to a new deal, and of which women as onlookers necessarily see the most. Von Holzen wished Cornish, and others concerned, to know that he had destroyed the prescription. It was a concession in disguise—a ...

— Roden's Corner • Henry Seton Merriman

... half hysterically, as though some pleasant thought had flashed across his mind. Jack imagined he must be anticipating a day of reckoning that was coming—a day when old scores would be wiped out and the slate be made clean for a new deal. ...

— Air Service Boys Flying for Victory - or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold • Charles Amory Beach

... five years ago. He is a good one, faithful and brave, and will never squeal. He is just the man to help us on this new deal." ...

— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton

... in: "Great Scott, mister, you don't know Palomitas! Widows in these parts don't set round moping their heads off all the rest of their lives. They wait long enough for politeness—same as I've done—and then they start in on a new deal." ...

— Santa Fe's Partner - Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town • Thomas A. Janvier

Words linked to "New deal" : deal, age, economic policy, historic period