He opposed providing direct relief to citizens during because he believed its would cause them to lose their incentive to work hard toward financial success.
What was the great depression?
It was a period of economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world that was caused by the stock market collapse in the late 1920s.
Rather than using the federal money for direct aid to citizens, he used them to provide indirect aid to banks or local public works projects.
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