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OCR: DEPRESSION Bennett was a one-man show dominating his ministers and annoying even his followers with his swollen ego He had promised to end unemployment by raising the tariff When this policy failed he received full blame forhis government failure to relieve the terrible hardships 0 the Great Depression. On the eve of the 1935 election, Bennett announced a "New Deal, requlated working hours minimum wages unemployment insurance, and improved regulation 01 corporate practices But Bennett's "deathbed conversion was too late He had aliena ted both rich Conservatives and the suffering public and had been unable to deliver on his grandiose promises Bennett's Conservatives took only 40 seats to 171 for King 's Liberals BIOGRAPHY of 4 twasa mproved

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