... be put on Navy and War Department menus-and it was FDR himself who established Tuesday Soup Nights at the White House to set an example of how to stretch food budgets. Roosevelt's famous "alphabet ...

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Cartoon parody of FDR's New Deal using alphabet cards ... as TVA) and others by Roosevelt's Executive Order (such as WPA). List of "Alphabet Soup ...

... dubious because it was based on fixing prices to reduce competition. Historian Jim Power, in FDR ... The New Deal had countless programs, labeled an "alphabet soup" by its detractors.

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The New Deal is the title President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to a sequence of programs and promises he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving relief, reform and recovery to the people and economy of the United States during the Great Depression. Dozens of alphabet agencies (so named because of their acronyms, as with the SEC), were created as a result of the New Deal. Historians distinguish between the "First New Deal" of 1933, which had aimed at short-term recovery programs for all groups in society, and the "Second New Deal" (1935–36), which aimed at a more radical redistribution of power away from business and toward workers, farmers and consumers. Historian William Leuchtenburg concludes the Second New Deal was designed not to destroy capitalism but to "discipline business" and "bolster unionization, pension the elderly...give relief to the needy, and extend a hand to the forgotten man."Opponents of the New Deal, complaining of the cost and increase in federal power, ended its expansion by 1937 and abolished many of its programs by 1943. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled several programs unconstitutional (some parts of them were however soon replaced, with the exception of the National Recovery Administration). There are several New Deal programs still in operation, some of which still exist under their original names, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The largest programs still in existence today are Social Security and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - the primary regulator of publicly traded U.S. firms.The New Deal represented a significant shift in political and domestic policy in the U.S., with its more lasting changes being increased government control over the economy and money supply; intervention to control prices and agricultural production; the beginning of the federal welfare state, and the rise of trade union organizations. The success and effects of the New Deal still remain a source of controversy and debate amongst economists and historians. The historian David Kennedy comments that "debate about the New Deal's historical significance, its ideological identity, and its political, social, and economic consequences has ground on for more than half a century. Roosevelts' reforms have become an unavoidable touchstone of American political argument, a talisman invoked by all parties to legitimate or condemn as the occasion requires, an emblem and barometer of American attitudes towards government itself."