It involved not only a further loss of homes, farms, savings and wages but also a loss of spiritual values--the loss of that sense of security for the present and the future so necessary to the peace and contentment of the individual and of his family.
Roosevelt highlights the loss of not just material wealth but also spiritual values during economic hardships.
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By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:
That the whole question of guaranteed wage plans and the possibility of their future development in American industries as an aid in the stabilization of employment and the regularization of production, should now be comprehensively…
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