| 1938-06-16 | Temporary National Economic Committee Launches Comprehensive Investigation of Monopoly and Economic Concentration Franklin D. Roosevelt · Joseph O'Mahoney · Thurman Arnold · +2 | 5 | |
| 1938-05-26 | Dies Committee (HUAC) Formed by Conservative Democrats to Discredit New Deal as Communist Infiltration Martin Dies Jr. · John Garner · U.S. House of Representatives · +1 | 4 | |
| 1938-04-29 | FDR Warns Congress That Concentrated Corporate Power Threatens American Democracy with Fascism Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · concentrated corporate interests | 3 | |
| 1938-01-01 | FHA Underwriting Manual Formalizes Racial Covenants, Physical Segregation Federal Housing Administration · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | 2 | |
| 1937-07-22 | Senate Defeats FDR Court-Packing Plan 70-22, Handing Roosevelt His Greatest Legislative Defeat U.S. Senate · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Senate Judiciary Committee · +3 | 6 | |
| 1937-06-19 | Little Steel Strike - Steel Companies Defy Wagner Act, Refuse Union Recognition Despite Legal Obligation Republic Steel · Tom Girdler · Bethlehem Steel · +5 | 8 |
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| 1937-06-01 | IBM's Thomas Watson Receives Nazi Merit Cross of the German Eagle as IBM Profits from Punch Card Technology Thomas J. Watson · Adolf Hitler · IBM · +2 | 5 | |
| 1937-05-30 | Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago Police Kill Ten Strikers and Wound 90 at Republic Steel Using Corporate-Supplied Weapons Chicago Police Department · Republic Steel Corporation · Steel Workers Organizing Committee · +2 | 5 |
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| 1937-05-26 | Battle of the Overpass - Ford Motor Company Thugs Brutally Attack UAW Organizers in Planned Assault at River Rouge Ford Motor Company · Harry Bennett · Ford Service Department · +5 | 8 |
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| 1937-05-01 | Roosevelt Recession Begins After Conservative Treasury Secretary Persuades FDR to Cut Spending 17 Percent Franklin D. Roosevelt · Henry Morgenthau Jr. · Federal Reserve · +3 | 6 | |
| 1937-04-12 | NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel - Supreme Court Upholds Wagner Act in Constitutional Revolution Supreme Court of the United States · Charles Evans Hughes · Owen Roberts · +3 | 6 |
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| 1937-03-29 | West Coast Hotel v. Parrish - "Switch in Time" Supreme Court Upholds State Minimum Wage Law Supreme Court of the United States · Owen Roberts · Charles Evans Hughes · +2 | 5 |
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| 1937-02-11 | General Motors Capitulates to UAW After 44-Day Flint Sit-Down Strike, Recognizing Union in Historic Labor Victory United Auto Workers · General Motors · Alfred Sloan Jr. · +4 | 7 | |
| 1937-02-05 | FDR Announces Judicial Reorganization Plan to Add Up to Six Supreme Court Justices, Triggering Court-Packing Crisis Franklin D. Roosevelt · Supreme Court of the United States · John Nance Garner · +3 | 6 | |
| 1937-02-05 | FDR Court-Packing Plan: Executive Assault on Judicial Independence Establishes Permanent Template Franklin D. Roosevelt · Homer Cummings · Burton Wheeler · +2 | 5 |
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| 1937-01-11 | Battle of the Running Bulls - Flint Police and GM Security Forces Attack Sit-Down Strikers with Tear Gas and Gunfire United Auto Workers · Flint Police Department · General Motors security forces · +4 | 7 |
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| 1936-12-30 | UAW Autoworkers Launch Historic Flint Sit-Down Strike Against General Motors, Occupying Fisher Body Plants United Auto Workers · General Motors · Fisher Body workers · +6 | 9 | |
| 1936-12-21 | United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export: Sutherland Invents 'Sole Organ' Doctrine of Presidential Foreign-Affairs Supremacy U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · +2 | 5 |
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| 1936-09-01 | Mohawk Valley Formula Exposed as Corporate Blueprint for Breaking Unions and Evading Wagner Act Remington Rand · James Rand Jr. · National Association of Manufacturers · +2 | 5 |
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| 1936-08-24 | Roosevelt Secret Oral Directive Authorizes FBI General Intelligence Without Statutory Basis Franklin D. Roosevelt · J. Edgar Hoover · Cordell Hull · +1 | 4 | |
| 1936-06-19 | Robinson-Patman Act Prohibits Price Discrimination to Protect Small Retailers from Chain Store Power U.S. Congress · Senator Joseph T. Robinson · Representative Wright Patman · +1 | 4 |
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| 1936-06-06 | La Follette Civil Liberties Committee Begins Investigation Exposing Corporate Union-Busting and Industrial Espionage Robert La Follette Jr. · U.S. Senate · Pinkerton Detective Agency · +5 | 8 |
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| 1936-01-25 | Former Democratic Presidential Candidate Al Smith Delivers Vitriolic Anti-Roosevelt Speech at Liberty League Dinner Al Smith · American Liberty League · Franklin D. Roosevelt · +2 | 5 | |
| 1936-01-15 | La Follette Committee Exposes Pinkerton and Burns Detective Agencies' Massive Labor Espionage Network La Follette Committee · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Burns Detective Agency · +4 | 7 |
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| 1936-01-06 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Agricultural Adjustment Act in United States v. Butler, Invalidating Key New Deal Farm Program Supreme Court of the United States · Owen J. Roberts · Harlan Fiske Stone · +4 | 7 | |
| 1935-11-09 | Congress of Industrial Organizations Founded, Challenges AFL Craft Unionism John L. Lewis · United Mine Workers of America · Sidney Hillman · +2 | 5 | |
| 1935-09-08 | Huey Long Assassinated, Ending "Share Our Wealth" Challenge to Both Corporate Power and New Deal Moderation Huey Long · Carl Weiss · Franklin D. Roosevelt · +2 | 5 | |
| 1935-08-30 | Revenue Act of 1935 Enacts "Wealth Tax" on Highest Incomes Franklin D. Roosevelt · John D. Rockefeller · Business community · +1 | 4 |
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| 1935-08-26 | Public Utility Holding Company Act Breaks Up Utility Monopolies Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission · Electric utility industry · +1 | 4 |
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| 1935-08-23 | Banking Act of 1935 Restructures Federal Reserve, Reduces Wall Street Influence Over Monetary Policy Franklin D. Roosevelt · Marriner Eccles · Carter Glass · +3 | 6 |
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| 1935-08-14 | Social Security Act Creates Federal Retirement and Unemployment Insurance System Over Business Opposition Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · U.S. Congress · +3 | 6 |
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| 1935-07-05 | Wagner Act Establishes Federal Protection for Union Rights and Collective Bargaining Franklin D. Roosevelt · Robert Wagner · U.S. Congress · +2 | 5 |
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| 1935-07-01 | Bureau of Investigation Formally Renamed Federal Bureau of Investigation, Professionalization Era Begins J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Franklin D. Roosevelt · +1 | 4 | |
| 1935-05-27 | "Black Monday" Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down National Industrial Recovery Act in Three Anti-New Deal Rulings Supreme Court of the United States · Charles Evans Hughes · Benjamin Cardozo · +3 | 6 | |
| 1935-05-27 | Humphrey's Executor v. United States: Supreme Court Limits Presidential Removal Power, Establishes Constitutional Predicate for Independent Agencies U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · +2 | 5 |
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| 1935-05-11 | Rural Electrification Administration Created to Bring Power to Farms Private Utilities Refused to Serve Franklin D. Roosevelt · Morris Cooke · private utility companies · +2 | 5 |
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| 1935-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Launches Unprecedented Multi-Million Dollar Anti-New Deal Propaganda Campaign National Association of Manufacturers · Robert Lund · Du Pont · +5 | 8 | |
| 1934-11-20 | Marine General Smedley Butler Testifies to Congressional Committee About Wall Street Plot to Overthrow FDR Smedley Butler · McCormack-Dickstein Committee · Gerald MacGuire · +4 | 7 |
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| 1934-08-22 | American Liberty League Founded by Du Pont Family and Corporate Elite to Oppose New Deal Irénée du Pont · John Jacob Raskob · Jouett Shouse · +6 | 9 | |
| 1934-07-02 | Joseph Kennedy Appointed First SEC Chairman - Wall Street Insider to Police Wall Street Franklin D. Roosevelt · Joseph P. Kennedy · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | 4 | |
| 1934-06-27 | Federal Housing Administration Created, Institutionalizes Racial Segregation Federal Housing Administration · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · U.S. Chamber of Commerce | 3 | |
| 1934-06-19 | Communications Act of 1934 Creates FCC and Consolidates Federal Media Regulation Under Public Interest Standard Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Communications Commission · +1 | 4 | |
| 1934-06-19 | Office of Legal Counsel Established in DOJ Reorganization; Becomes Binding Interpreter of Executive Authority Franklin D. Roosevelt · Homer Cummings · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | 4 |
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| 1934-06-16 | Pecora Commission Issues Final Report on Wall Street Corruption Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency · Senator Duncan Fletcher | 3 | |
| 1934-06-06 | Securities Exchange Act Creates SEC, Regulates Secondary Markets Franklin D. Roosevelt · Joseph P. Kennedy · Ferdinand Pecora · +5 | 8 |
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| 1934-04-12 | Nye Committee Begins Investigation of War Profiteering and Munitions Industry "Merchants of Death" Gerald Nye · U.S. Senate · J.P. Morgan Jr. · +3 | 6 | |
| 1934-01-30 | Gold Reserve Act Nationalizes Gold Holdings and Devalues Dollar Over Wall Street Opposition Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve · +3 | 6 | |
| 1933-06-16 | National Industrial Recovery Act Creates NRA Blue Eagle Program, Enabling Corporate Self-Regulation Franklin D. Roosevelt · Hugh Johnson · U.S. Congress · +4 | 7 |
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| 1933-06-13 | Home Owners' Loan Corporation Created, Establishes Racial Appraisal Framework Home Owners' Loan Corporation · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · +1 | 4 |
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| 1933-06-13 | Home Owners' Loan Corporation Creates "Residential Security" Maps: The Federal Government Invents Redlining Home Owners' Loan Corporation · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · Franklin D. Roosevelt | 3 |
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| 1933-05-27 | Securities Act of 1933 Establishes Federal Securities Regulation Franklin D. Roosevelt · Huston Thompson · Federal Trade Commission · +2 | 5 |
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| 1933-05-24 | J.P. Morgan Jr. Testifies, Preferred List and Tax Evasion Exposed J.P. Morgan Jr. · J.P. Morgan and Company · Ferdinand Pecora · +3 | 6 | |
| 1933-05-23 | Pecora Commission Exposes Albert Wiggin's Short Selling of Chase Bank Stock Albert H. Wiggin · Chase National Bank · Ferdinand Pecora · +1 | 4 | |
| 1933-05-18 | Tennessee Valley Authority Created as Public Power Alternative to Private Utility Monopolies Franklin D. Roosevelt · George Norris · U.S. Congress · +4 | 7 |
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| 1933-03-31 | Civilian Conservation Corps Created as First Federal Youth Employment Program Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Robert Fechner · +2 | 5 |
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| 1933-03-09 | Emergency Banking Act Passes in Eight Hours to Stabilize Collapsing Banking System Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve · +2 | 5 |
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| 1933-03-09 | FDR Invokes Trading with the Enemy Act in Peacetime for Bank Holiday: Wilson-Era Wartime Statute Becomes Domestic Emergency Instrument Franklin D. Roosevelt · Henry Morgenthau · William Woodin · +1 | 4 |
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| 1933-03-06 | FDR Declares National Bank Holiday, Closing All Banks to Stop Collapse of Financial System Franklin D. Roosevelt · Banking industry · Federal Reserve · +1 | 4 |
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| 1933-02-21 | Charles Mitchell Testifies Before Pecora Commission, Resigns in Disgrace Charles E. Mitchell · National City Bank · National City Company · +2 | 5 | |
| 1933-01-15 | Ferdinand Pecora Appointed Chief Counsel to Senate Banking Investigation Ferdinand Pecora · Senator Peter Norbeck · Senator Duncan Fletcher · +1 | 4 | |
| 1932-07-28 | MacArthur Uses Tanks and Tear Gas to Violently Suppress Bonus Army of 43,000 Veterans Douglas MacArthur · Herbert Hoover · Dwight D. Eisenhower · +3 | 6 | |
| 1932-03-02 | Senate Banking Committee Launches Investigation into Wall Street Crash U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency · Senator Peter Norbeck · Senator Duncan Fletcher | 3 | |
| 1931-07-20 | Albert Fall Enters Prison as First Cabinet Member Incarcerated for Felony Crimes Albert Fall | 1 | |
| 1931-06-01 | Banking Crisis Accelerates with 2,300 Bank Failures in 1931 as Hoover Resists Federal Intervention Herbert Hoover · Federal Reserve · American bankers · +1 | 4 | |
| 1930-06-17 | Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act Enacts Corporate Protectionism Despite Economist Warnings Herbert Hoover · Reed Smoot · Willis C. Hawley · +2 | 5 | |
| 1930-04-30 | Army Signal Intelligence Service Founded Under Friedman, Institutional Ancestor of NSA William F. Friedman · U.S. Army Signal Corps · Signal Intelligence Service · +1 | 4 | |
| 1929-10-31 | Stimson Closes Yardley's Black Chamber, Briefly Interrupting U.S. Peacetime Signals Intelligence Henry L. Stimson · Herbert O. Yardley · State Department · +2 | 5 | |
| 1929-10-25 | Albert Fall Convicted of Bribery - First Cabinet Member Imprisoned for Crimes in Office Albert Fall · Edward Doheny | 2 | |
| 1929-08-01 | Investment Trust Leverage Pyramids Reach Unsustainable Peak Goldman Sachs · Investment Trusts · Federal Reserve | 3 | |
| 1929-03-31 | Bernays "Torches of Freedom" Campaign Uses Feminism to Sell Cigarettes Edward Bernays · American Tobacco Company · George Washington Hill | 3 | |
| 1929-02-02 | Federal Reserve Warns Against Speculation But Takes No Effective Action Federal Reserve Board · Benjamin Strong · Charles Mitchell · +2 | 5 | |
| 1928-08-27 | Kellogg-Briand Pact Outlaws War While Preserving Imperial Prerogatives Frank Kellogg · Aristide Briand · Calvin Coolidge · +1 | 4 | |
| 1928-01-01 | Margin Buying Explosion Enables Rampant Stock Market Speculation Federal Reserve · Goldman Sachs · Investment Trusts | 3 | |
| 1927-09-18 | CBS Founded as Radio Broadcasting Oligopoly Takes Shape William Paley · Columbia Phonograph Company · Arthur Judson · +1 | 4 | |
| 1927-08-23 | Sacco and Vanzetti Executed After Seven Years of Biased Proceedings Nicola Sacco · Bartolomeo Vanzetti · Alvin Fuller · +2 | 5 |
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| 1927-05-02 | Supreme Court Endorses Forced Sterilization in Buck v. Bell Eugenics Decision Oliver Wendell Holmes · Carrie Buck · Harry Laughlin · +2 | 5 |
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| 1927-04-21 | Great Mississippi Flood Exposes Racial Labor Exploitation and Plantation System Herbert Hoover · LeRoy Percy · Red Cross · +1 | 4 | |
| 1927-04-11 | Supreme Court Applies Antitrust Law to Union Secondary Boycotts in Bedford Cut Stone George Sutherland · U.S. Supreme Court · Journeymen Stone Cutters Association · +1 | 4 |
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| 1927-02-25 | McFadden Act Perpetuates Banking Fragmentation, Prohibits Interstate Branching Louis Thomas McFadden · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · +1 | 4 | |
| 1927-02-23 | Radio Act of 1927 Establishes Public Ownership of Airwaves and "Public Interest" Broadcasting Standard Calvin Coolidge · Clarence Dill · Wallace H. White Jr. · +2 | 5 | |
| 1927-01-01 | Company Unions Peak as Welfare Capitalism Undermines Independent Labor Goodyear Tire · U.S. Steel · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 | 4 | |
| 1926-11-15 | NBC Created as RCA Establishes Radio Broadcasting Monopoly David Sarnoff · Radio Corporation of America · General Electric · +2 | 5 | |
| 1926-10-25 | Myers v. United States: Taft Court Reads Presidential Removal Power Into Article II, Predicate for Later Unitary-Executive Claims U.S. Supreme Court · William Howard Taft · Woodrow Wilson · +3 | 6 |
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| 1926-08-06 | Gertrude Ederle Swims English Channel But Era Constrains Women's Progress Gertrude Ederle · Women's Sports Organizations | 2 | |
| 1926-02-26 | Revenue Act of 1926 Slashes Top Tax Rate to 25%, Abolishes Gift Tax in Full Mellon Plan Andrew Mellon · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · +1 | 4 | |
| 1925-11-14 | D.C. Stephenson Convicted of Murder Exposing Klan Leadership Corruption D.C. Stephenson · Madge Oberholtzer · Indiana Ku Klux Klan · +1 | 4 | |
| 1925-08-08 | KKK Marches on Washington at Peak of Institutional Influence Ku Klux Klan · Hiram Evans · D.C. Klan · +1 | 4 | |
| 1925-06-08 | Supreme Court Upholds Criminal Anarchy Conviction While Expanding Due Process Edward Sanford · Benjamin Gitlow · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 | 4 |
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| 1925-05-25 | Supreme Court Reverses Coronado Decision, Opens Unions to Antitrust Liability William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America · +1 | 4 |
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| 1925-01-30 | Charles Forbes Convicted of Veterans Bureau Fraud After Nine-Week Trial Charles Forbes · Warren G. Harding · E.H. Mortimer · +1 | 4 | |
| 1925-01-01 | Florida Land Boom Epitomizes Unregulated Speculation and Securities Fraud Carl Fisher · George Merrick · Addison Mizner · +1 | 4 | |
| 1924-06-02 | Revenue Act of 1924 Continues Mellon Tax Cuts for Wealthy, Lowers Top Rate to 46% Andrew Mellon · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · +1 | 4 | |
| 1924-05-26 | Immigration Act of 1924 Imposes Racist National Origins Quotas Based on Eugenics Calvin Coolidge · Albert Johnson · David Reed · +3 | 6 | |
| 1924-05-10 | Hoover Named Acting Director of Bureau of Investigation, Begins 48-Year Tenure J. Edgar Hoover · Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone · Bureau of Investigation · +1 | 4 |
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| 1924-03-28 | Coolidge Fires Daugherty for Refusing to Open Justice Department Files Harry Daugherty · Calvin Coolidge · Warren G. Harding | 3 | |
| 1924-01-15 | National Industrial Conference Board Coordinates Corporate Anti-Union Propaganda National Industrial Conference Board · National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +1 | 4 |
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| 1923-10-15 | Senate Public Lands Committee Begins Teapot Dome Hearings Under Thomas Walsh Thomas Walsh · Albert Fall | 2 | |
| 1923-09-01 | Ku Klux Klan Seizes Control of Indiana State Government D.C. Stephenson · Ed Jackson · Indiana Republican Party · +1 | 4 | |
| 1923-05-30 | Jesse Smith Suicide Exposes Ohio Gang Justice Department Corruption Jesse Smith · Harry Daugherty · Warren G. Harding | 3 | |
| 1923-04-09 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Minimum Wage Law for Women in Adkins Decision George Sutherland · U.S. Supreme Court · Children's Hospital · +1 | 4 |
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