In 1933, Stone worked as a reporter for the "New York Post" newspaper. He supported the politics of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933–1945), especially the progressive reforms of the New Deal (1935–1938) programs FDR was instituting in order to rescue the U.S. economy from the poverty imposed by the Great Depression which started in 1929. In his first book, "The Court Disposes" (1937), Stone criticized the politically reactionary role of the U.S. Supreme Court in blocking the realization of the socio-economic reform programs of the New Deal.