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The National Recovery Administration (NRA) was a prime agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in 1933. The goal of the administration was to eliminate "cut throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices.
The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (NIRA) was a US labor law and consumer law passed by the 73rd US Congress to authorize the president to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery. It also established a national public works program known as the Public Works Administration (PWA). The National ...
The first major test of New Deal legislation came in Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan, [15] announced January 7, 1935. Contested in this case was the National Industrial Recovery Act, Section 9(c), in which Congress had delegated to the President authority "to prohibit the transportation in interstate and foreign commerce of petroleum ... produced or withdrawn from storage in excess of the amount ...
The election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) appeared to change things. The NIRA, which Roosevelt signed in June 1933, called for cooperation among business, labor and government and established the National Recovery Administration (NRA). It was to oversee the creation of codes of ...
Pages in category "National Recovery Administration" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The National Recovery Administration created a separate pay scale for Black workers and had a “whites first” hiring policy.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a Hurricane Helene recovery briefing in a hangar at the Asheville Regional Airport in Fletcher, North Carolina, on Jan. 24, 2025. Trump said he may "get rid ...
Since the 1990s, the term "alphabet agencies" has been commonly used to describe the agencies of the U.S. national security state.Many are members of the United States Intelligence Community, [3] [4] and several were founded or expanded in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.