Senator Borah's crusade to save small business from the New Deal. (William E. Borah)

From: The Historian | Date: June 22, 1993| Author: Horowitz, David A. | Copyright information

William E. Borah, Republican US Senator from Idaho from 1906 until his death in Jan 1940, fought the National Recovery Administration, a New Deal program, because he believed it would promote monopoly and would work against the small, independent businessmen that he believed were the bedrock of American economic democracy. Borah made defending the interests of small business the focus of his unsuccessful bid for the 1936 Republican nomination for president. Though widely regarded as a politic...

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