new deal

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1. new deal - Noun

2. New deal - Proper noun

Meaning

a reapportioning of something

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

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I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. Franklin D. Roosevelt

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? H. G. Wells

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace. H. L. Mencken

If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities. Lawrence Lessig

What saved the economy, and the New Deal was the enormous public-works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs. Paul Krugman

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time." Ronald Reagan

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