On 4 November 1930, Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected Governor of New York in the Mars-Moon period (from October 30, 1929 to December 1, 1931). He was 48 years old. This second term began after the stock market crash of 1929. As governor, he has managed to mitigate its disastrous consequences through a vigorous policy. His political opponents called him a socialist (which was a pejorative term for them) because he organized the protection of the unemployed through direct financial aids. He did not trust an economy of free competition without any constraints in return. He was able to improve wo...

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