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...

economic recovery. It also established a national public works program known as the Public Works Administration (PWA). The National Recovery Administration (NRA)...

the unemployed and farmers while seeking economic recovery with the National Recovery Administration and other programs. He also instituted major regulatory...

Progress Administration (WPA), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Farm Security Administration (FSA), the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933...

by Act of Congress, as part of their power of the purse; the National Industrial Recovery Act allowed Roosevelt to allocate $3.3 billion without Congress...

service. He served on the Industrial Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration (1933). In 1934 he returned to the private sector when he joined...

industrial recovery and established the National Recovery Administration (NRA), while the second established the Public Works Administration (PWA). The...

for FDR and helped plan the New Deal. Appointed head of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) in 1933, he was highly energetic in his "blue eagle"...

advisory committee, and a business advisory committee in the National Recovery Administration. In 1933 Roosevelt appointed Mary Harriman Rumsey to head the...

slum clearance, and a national work relief program (the Works Progress Administration) to replace direct relief efforts. It included programs to redistribute...