National Recovery Administration

As part of the New Deal in the United States, the National Recovery Administration (Created by the National Industrial Recovery Act) developed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Administration pushed industries to make codes and rules for "fair competition". It gave more rights to workers and employees, and assisted industries as well as poor unemployed people of the early 1930s. The NRA established minimum wages and maximum labor hours. The NRA, symbolized by the blue eagle, was very popular with workers.

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New Deal - United States - National Industrial Recovery Act - Unemployed - 1930s - Blue eagle

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The NRA was declared unconstitutional in 1935 by the US Supreme Court on the grounds that its codes were an illegal delegation of legislative authority and invaded areas reserved for states.

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1935 - US Supreme Court

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Its director was Hugh S. Johnson, a retired general and successful businessman. Johnson saw the NRA as a national crusade designed to restore employment and regenerate industry in an excitement of torchlight processions and giant rallies.

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The NRA was the most striking American example of corporatism, the fascist economic program promoted in Italy by Mussolini. Mussolini's economic program was in fact admired by both FDR and Johnson.

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Corporatism - Mussolini

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