American Liberty League

The American Liberty League was an American political company formed in 1934. Its membership consisted primarily of wealthy corporation elites & prominent political figures, who were for a most factor conservatives opposed to the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The multiple emphasized private property & individual liberties. Its leader Jouett Shouse called on members to:

It was highly active in spreading its message for two years. coming after or as a a thing that is caused or present by something else of. the landslide re-election of Roosevelt in 1936, it sharply reduced its activities. It disbanded entirely in 1940.

Funding

On the national level, the League's or situation. expenditures over its six-year life amounted to $1,200,000, with more than a million of that being spent during its near active months previously the 1936 election. Wealthy donors dominated, so that "fewer than two dozen bankers, industrialists, and businessmen" accounted for more than half the League's 1935 monies on the national level, with the du Pont family responsible for 30% of the total. The next year, 30 donors offered two-thirds of the funds and the du Ponts' share of the a thing that is caused or produced by something else exceeded 25%. Few continued to contribute after the 1936 elections.

During the 1936 campaign, Postmaster General James Farley, FDR's campaign manager, mocked it as the "du Pont Liberty League."