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Entry into the World Court and cancellation of the war debts (the record that made him 'politically unpopular') — Newton D. Baker, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.39	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Adherence to the World Court	Adhere to the World Court; arbitration of disputes; consultation to enforce the Kellogg-Briand Pact
0.39	1932	Herbert Hoover	Adherence to the World Court	Join the World Court with reservations; make the Kellogg-Briand Pact an instrument for consultation — but no commitments to use force
0.34	1936	Alf Landon	European war debts and reparations	Use every effort to collect the war debts due from foreign countries
0.31	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	International economic and monetary conferences	Convene international monetary and economic conferences to stabilize currencies and restore trade
0.31	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Unemployment insurance	Unemployment insurance under state laws
0.31	1936	Alf Landon	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the budget by cutting expenditures, not by raising taxes
0.30	1932	Alfred E. Smith	Overall role and scale of the federal government	War on any candidate who makes 'demagogic appeals to the masses' setting class against class
0.30	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Restoring the commodity price level (reflation)	Restore commodity prices toward their former dollar value rather than write down all debts
0.30	1932	Norman Thomas	European war debts and reparations	Cancel the war debts (against cancellation of reparations) and raze the tariff wall
0.29	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	European war debts and reparations	No cancellation of the war debts — make payment possible by restoring trade
0.29	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Level of military spending	An adequate Army and Navy without a near-billion-dollar peacetime burden
0.29	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Overall role and scale of the federal government	"A new deal for the American people" — work and security through liberal, planned government action
0.28	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Income and inheritance tax progressivity	Taxes levied according to ability to pay; lower taxes for 99 percent, higher at the top
0.28	1932	Herbert Hoover	European war debts and reparations	No cancellation of war debts; apply any annual payment to opening foreign markets for American farm products
0.28	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Level of federal spending	Cut the cost of the federal government by at least 25 percent
0.28	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Working hours and labor standards	Revive the NRA's principles 'by one device or another' (imputed; the President would not say)
0.27	1932	Herbert Hoover	European war debts and reparations	The 1931 German moratorium and standstill agreements stemmed European collapse and will be built upon
0.27	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Gold standard and currency basis	A sound currency preserved at all hazards
0.27	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm and home mortgage relief	Low interest rates, sounder home financing, better banking
0.27	1936	William E. Borah	Antitrust and concentration of economic power	Drive monopoly and price fixing out of the system or face governmental regimentation
0.27	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Income and inheritance tax progressivity	Raise revenue by graduated income, inheritance and profits taxes, not taxes on necessities
0.26	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Farm prices can be restored only by general recovery and markets — no production control, no subsidies; repeal Farm Board stabilization
0.26	1932	Herbert Hoover	Gold standard and currency basis	Hold the gold standard and the 'honest dollar'; no fiat money, no 'rubber dollar' price-fixing
0.26	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the federal budget annually within revenues
0.26	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the budget within a year or two out of rising national income, without new taxes