The trend toward a concentration of authority in the government was taking place in Britain and France along with the United States. No longer were all the vital economic decisions being made by international conferences of bankers. The changes brought about by the New Deal with its expansion of government was something that was happening worldwide. Roosevelt was rewarded for these efforts with an overwhelming reelection in 1936. That despite all its inefficiencies, confusion and frequent upheavals it was welcomed by the bulk of the American people because of its essential friendliness and human decency. The tone of the New Deal would address the needs of the people instead of the needs of businesses which had marked Hoover’s meager attempts at relief. That observation of FDR’s inaugural address in 1932 marked the change in the governments direction toward dealing with the economic distresses caused by the Great Depression. Since Yesterday: The Nineteen-Thirties in America by Frederick Lewis Allen And not only in his words but in the challenge of the very accents of his voice he has promised them what they want. The latter novel was made into the movie Cheers for Miss Bishop in 1941, which starred Martha Scott and Edmund Gwenn and premiered in Lincoln, Nebraska.įor he has seen that a tortured and bewildered people want to throw overboard the old and welcome something new that they are sick of waiting, they want leadership, the thrill of bold decision. She was the author of about 200 short stories, including "The Woman Who Was Forgotten" (adapted into a film of the same title in 1931), and thirteen novels, including Miss Bishop. When Charles died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1925 at the age of 52, Aldrich took up writing as a means of supporting her family. Aldrich's first novel, Mother Mason, was published in 1924. Her stories often concerned the Heartland/Plains pioneer history and were very popular with teenage girls and young women. She went on to become one of the highest-paid women writers of the period. Prior to 1918 she wrote under her pen name, "Margaret Dean Stephens". After this success, she continued to write and submit work to publications such as McCall's, Harper's Weekly, and The American Magazine where she was generally paid between one and one-hundred dollars for her work. Aldrich began writing more regularly in 1911 when the Ladies' Home Journal advertised a fiction contest, which she entered and won $175 for her story "The Little House Next Door".
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