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National Association of Manufacturers Launches Unprecedented Multi-Million Dollar Anti-New Deal Propaganda Campaign

| Importance: 8/10

In 1935, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) under president Robert Lund launches what Business Week headlines as “The NAM Declares War” (December 14, 1935)—an unprecedented multi-million dollar propaganda campaign to discredit Roosevelt’s New Deal and promote …

National Association of Manufacturers Robert Lund Du Pont General Motors AT&T +3 more corporate-resistance propaganda new-deal institutional-capture media-manipulation +1 more
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American Liberty League Founded by Du Pont Family and Corporate Elite to Oppose New Deal

| Importance: 8/10

On August 22, 1934, the American Liberty League is announced in Washington, D.C., as a purportedly bipartisan organization to defend the U.S. Constitution against “radical” New Deal policies, with Jouett Shouse appointed as president. The League’s formation represents the first …

Irénée du Pont John Jacob Raskob Jouett Shouse Al Smith John W. Davis +4 more corporate-resistance new-deal propaganda institutional-capture think-tanks +2 more
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McKinley Victory Establishes Mark Hanna's Corporate Fundraising Model

| Importance: 9/10

William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan to win the presidency in what becomes a watershed moment in American campaign finance, powered by Republican National Committee Chairman Mark Hanna’s revolutionary systematic fundraising from corporations. The Ohio industrialist, shipping …

William McKinley Mark Hanna Standard Oil John D. Rockefeller Republican National Committee +1 more gilded-age campaign-finance corruption corporate-power electoral-politics +1 more
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