The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) and the National Recovery Administration (NRA) were designed to address unemployment by regulating the number of hours worked per week and banning child ...

In 1933 workers and businessmen marched in spectacular parades to demonstrate their support for the National Recovery Administration (NRA), Roosevelt’s agency for industrial mobilization ...

"The national reconstruction act is sufficiently flexible to permit the warding off of this danger to the Negro manual labor of the country, and the recovery administration will no doubt follow ...

Louisiana Sen. Huey Long in 1935 carried out a “dramatic filibuster” to try to include Senate confirmations for National Recovery Administration’s senior employees in a New Deal bill ...

Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) This agency was given $500 million to provide food, clothing and housing for the poor. National Recovery Administration (NRA) This agency was set up ...

The NRA (National Recovery Administration) set fair prices, wages and working conditions. Businesses that chose to participate displayed a blue eagle logo. In total, around 2.5 million firms ...