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The 1931 German moratorium and standstill agreements stemmed European collapse and will be built upon — Herbert Hoover, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.48	1932	Norman Thomas	Farm and home mortgage relief	Government aid to farmers and small home-owners against foreclosure and tax sales; moratorium on interest debated
0.46	1932	Alfred E. Smith	European war debts and reparations	A twenty-year moratorium on the war debts, writing them off in proportion to each nation's purchases of American goods
0.41	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Gold standard and currency basis	A permanently sound currency stabilized against wide fluctuations
0.37	1932	Herbert Hoover	International economic and monetary conferences	A world economic conference on monetary stabilization and trade, with an agricultural representative
0.37	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	International economic and monetary conferences	Convene international monetary and economic conferences to stabilize currencies and restore trade
0.35	1936	Alf Landon	Gold standard and currency basis	Sound currency 'at all hazards'; no further devaluation; repeal the laws delegating the money power to the Executive
0.33	1936	Alf Landon	European war debts and reparations	Use every effort to collect the war debts due from foreign countries
0.33	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	National economic planning	Industry leaders to organize cooperatively for the common good; government regulates only as a last resort
0.32	1932	Herbert Hoover	Regulation of securities issuance and exchanges	No federal 'blue sky' law — securities regulation belongs to the states, and the President should not police booms
0.32	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Gold standard and currency basis	A sound currency preserved at all hazards
0.32	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm and home mortgage relief	Government assistance to keep home-owners and farm-owners from foreclosure
0.31	1932	Herbert Hoover	Regulation of banks and securities	The RFC and the 'shield of Government credit' saved 5,000 institutions and must continue — but no direct government lending to everyone
0.31	1932	Herbert Hoover	Level of federal spending	Cut federal spending $1.5 billion below fiscal 1932 and reorganize the executive branch
0.31	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Adherence to the World Court	Adhere to the World Court; arbitration of disputes; consultation to enforce the Kellogg-Briand Pact
0.31	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Naval arms and disarmament	International agreements for the reduction of armaments
0.31	1932	Herbert Hoover	Regulation of banks and securities	Reform the banking laws; stop credit flowing to speculation; relieve depositors of closed banks
0.30	1932	Herbert Hoover	National Prohibition	Resubmit the Eighteenth Amendment so each state may decide, with constitutional guarantees against the saloon and against interference with dry states; enforce the law meanwhile
0.30	1932	Newton D. Baker	European war debts and reparations	Entry into the World Court and cancellation of the war debts (the record that made him 'politically unpopular')
0.30	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm and home mortgage relief	Reorganize and enlarge the Federal Land Banks to refinance farm mortgages; curb Joint Stock Land Bank abuses
0.30	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm and home mortgage relief	The Federal Home Loan Bank system to stop home foreclosures and finance new homes
0.30	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
0.29	1932	Herbert Hoover	Balancing the federal budget	A balanced budget as 'the foundation of all public and private financial stability'
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	Herbert Hoover	Public ownership of electric power	Federal regulation of interstate power; opposition to government operation of the power business
0.28	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Regulation of securities issuance and exchanges	No implied government approval of foreign bond sales; officials will not try to move stock prices