Read the excerpt from the interview with E. Y (Yip) Harburg Everybody picked the song up in '30 and '31. Bands were playing it and records were made. When Roosevelt
was a candidate for President, the Republicans got pretty worried about it. Some of the network radio people
were told to lay low on the song. In some cases, they tried to ban it from the air. But it was too late. The song
had already done its damage.
From the content of the excerpt, it can be inferred that
x the money Harburg made from the song made him a very wealthy man.
the song and its message struck a chord with the American public
the Republican Party lost the elections of that particular year
the president was a big fan of Yip Harburg and Jay Gorney