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In 1985 came the New Coke disaster and subsequent resumption of pre-New Coke Coke, now labeled as “Classic” or “original formula.”

Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

In 1985 came the New Coke disaster and subsequent resumption of pre-New Coke Coke, now labeled as “Classic” or “original formula.”

What sweetens a legend most? Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Comparing immigration pre-New Deal and post-New Deal is almost comparing apples and oranges.

Borjas: What's His Problem?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

But in this pre-New Deal era, most eugenic legislation was passed on the state level.

Harry Bruinius - An interview with author 2010

One of her early, pre-New Yorker reviews, of Vittorio De Sica's classic "Shoeshine," set out her characteristic manner:

What She Found in the Dark Lee Sandlin 2011

The New Deal's eight-year failure to return unemployment numbers to the pre-New Deal rate is often ignored by the Left.

Other Comments 2011

I would not necessarily have a problem with saying that there is possibly a tradeoff between the manic/depressive cycles of the pre-New Deal economy and the more medicated cycles of the post-New Deal cycle.

Matthew Yglesias » Amar Bhide, WSJ Edit Page, Embrace Regular Recurrence of Massive Recessions 2009

If there is anything in post-Civil War, pre-New Deal American history that was NOT libertarian, it was how African Americans were treated in the South after Reconstruction.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010

The result, he says, would be not just a ruling against the legislation, but a ruling that would "exhume the long-dead and discredited doctrines that the pre-New Deal Supreme Court deployed to overturn laws that prohibited child labor, prescribed minimum wage levels and maximum hours."

The 'weak link' in Vinson's decision Ezra Klein 2011

I would add that the largest and most important agency of the federal government in pre-New Deal America was the armed forces.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism 2010