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By 1934, with Roosevelt's New Deal policies having only partial success in improving the economy, a spirit of radicalism was catching fire in parts of the nation. Frustrated and disillusioned by the severity and length of the Depression, some Americans enthusiastically embraced Long's agenda for redistributing the nation's wealth. His Share-Our-Wealth Society offered a plan to divide the nation's wealth equally among all Americans, guaranteeing everyone a middle-class income of twenty-five hundred dollars and a five-thousand-dollar "homestead allowance." By the end of 1934 millions of supporters were singing the society song, which included the lines "Ev'ry man a king, ev'ry man a king, / . . . / There's enough for all people to share."
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