Can you think of a more timely song?
Jimmy Durante captures the mood of the nation as perfectly now as he does then.
Of course, the National Recovery Administration, which as part of FDR’s New Deal, encouraged employment, a minimum wage and a maximum of weekly hours:
You and you and you and you
You’ve got a president now
He gave the land a New Deal
You hold the cards now you deal
You and you and you and you
Put shoulders to the plow
He gave us what we asked for
Now pay him back somehow
Step out in front,
Get back of the president
And give a man a job …
