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The ABC of the NRA

by Charles L. Dearing, Paul T. Homan, Lewis L. Lorwin, Leverett S. Lyon. 200 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Charles L. Dearing, Paul T. Homan, Lewis L. Lorwin, Leverett S. Lyon

Publisher:

   The Brookings Institution

Place of Publication:

  Washington, DC  

Publication Year:

  1934
Subjects:   United States--National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, United States--National Recovery Administration
Table of contents
CONTENTS
DIRECTOR'S PREFACE ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENT xi
INTRODUCTION 1
PART 1. THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT
CHAPTER I THE BACKGROUND OF THE ACT 7
CHAPTER II THE PROVISIONS OF THE ACT 14
CHAPTER III LEGAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES 25
I. Legal Issues 25
II. Economic Implications 28
PART II. THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER IV ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION 41
I. National Recovery Administration Proper 43
II. Other Newly Created Government Agencies 52
III. Extra-Government Agencies 57
IV. Old-Line Government Agencies 58
CHAPTER V THE PRESIDENT'S RE-EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT 60
I. Provisions of the Agreement 61
II. The Blue Eagle Drive 64
III. Treatment of Exceptional Cases 65
IV. Enforcement of Re-Employment Agreement 73
CHAPTER VI THE CODE-MAKING PROCESS 77
CHAPTER VII ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF CODES 93
I. Routine Administration 93
II. Compliance and Enforcement 96
CONCLUDING STATEMENT 109
DOCUMENTARY APPENDICES
APPENDIX A President Roosevelt's Special Message, May 17, 1933 113
APPENDIX B Title I--Industrial Recovery Act 116
APPENDIX C President's Statement Outlining Policies of the NRA 125
APPENDIX D The President's Re-Employment Agreement 131
APPENDIX E Sample Codes and Code Provisions 134
1. The Cotton Textile Industry Code 134
2. The Lumber and Timber Products Industry Code 146
3. Trade Practice Provisions of the Rubber Tire Manufacturing Industry Code 177
4. Plant Operation, Accounting, Selling and Statistical Reporting Provisions of the Envelope Industry Code 181
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The Origins of the National Recovery Administration: Business, Government, and the Trade Association Issue, 1921-1933
Book by Robert F. Himmelberg; Fordham University Press, 1976
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...Association Issue, 1921-1933 ROBERT F. HIMMELBERG...paperback) Printed in the United States of America Contents...Paradox of Hoovers Last Recovery Effort 166 10 The...Conservation Board NAM National Association of Manufacturers...Association NICB National Industrial Conference Board NRC...stemming from the Sherman Act and subsequent antitrust...Court which found the National Industrial Recovery Act un- constitutional. Despite the elimination of the legal basis of the...
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Subjects: United States--National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, United States--National Recovery Administration
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The Economics of Recovery
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The Economics of the Recovery Program
Book by Douglass V. Brown, Edward Chamberlin, Seymour E. Harris; Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc., 1934
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...significance, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Association...the National Industrial Recovery Act. Strangely...nothing in the National Industrial Recovery Act itself, apart...limitation of output. In...and writings of certain officials...sees in the National Industrial Recovery Act the proper...
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The National Recovery Administration and the Rubber Tire Industry, 1933-1935
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...Morality and the Mann Act (Chicago, 1994), 261-264...vii-x. On Roes view of publicity, see Roe, The...Vice in Chicago (Chicago, 1933), 36-39. The differences...reformers took the lead in the national campaign against vice...peonage, see Clyatt v. United States, 197 U.S. 207(1905...Office of the National Recovery Administration, Division...800--801; Caminetti v. United States, 242 U.S. 470 (1917...Berto Rogers, "The Mann Act and Noncommercial Vice," Law Notes 37 (July 1933): 107--108; Langum, Crossing...precedents for the expansion of Federal regulation; see Robert Eugene Cushman, "The National Police Power Under the...
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...openness in government is under assault throughout the United States--at every level. Can the news media, reluctant combatants...operating system by a company most people had never heard of: Microsoft. That was also the year Seth Rosenfeld mailed...to the FBI for records under the Freedom of Information Act. Rosenfeld was a journalism major at the University of...eventually reopened most of them. He had based his actions on national security, although many of the records had nothing to...friendly message: "Congratulations on being one step to full recovery." In response to such abuses, an army of privacy advocates...
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...commentator on the stock market and economy, believes the United States never has been in better shape to fight a recession...Glassman is optimistic. After the recent declaration by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) that the U.S. economy officially...Insight: What impact will September 11 have on economic recovery? JG: Its main effect appears to be uncertainty, which...
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...fish removed from the Endangered Species list. Now, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is trying to get coastal coho back on the list, after a panel of scientists said that the coho still need federal protection...Bush administration, and directly opposed to NOAA. The states draft Oregon Coastal Coho Assessment calls the coho "biologically...government that the species didnt need Endangered Species Act protection and that Oregon could solve the problem on its...Ocean conditions are but one factor in fish decline and recovery, however, conservationists say. Watershed restoration projects...
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Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), January 18, 2006
Subjects: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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National Recovery Administration
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...congressional message of May 17, 1933, Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act, an emergency measure designed to encourage industrial...industrial self-regulation and declared that codes of fair competition for the protection of consumers, competitors...approval of the act. President Roosevelt appointed (June, 1933) Hugh S. Johnson as administrator for industrial...1935, in the case of the Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the compulsory...
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United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...transform his success in international affairs into domestic recovery. One of his last actions as president was to send (Dec., 1992...North American Free Trade Agreement , signed by the United States, Canada, and Mexico in 1992 and designed to make its...temporary government shutdowns. In Apr., 1995, in the worst act of terrorism ever on American soil, a bomb was exploded...that led to the Lewinsky scandal , which burst on the national scene in early 1998. Battle lines formed and remained...levels not seen before, and causing inflation to rise and industrial output to drop by amounts not seen in more than two...
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Conservation of Natural Resources
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...become another important issue. Conservation in the United States Conservation became part of U.S. government policy with the creation (1871) of...Bureau of the Dept. of Agriculture created the first national forest reserve in 1891. The Irrigation Division in...classified the resources of the public domain. In 1906 an act protected the Alaskan fisheries. Conservation as part...reclamation and for conservation in general. The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 provided for conservation. The Civilian Conservation...
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Great Britain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...economic equality with England. The result was the Act of Union (1707), by which the two kingdoms became one...Political Developments The beginnings of Britains national debt (1692) and the founding of the Bank of England...together to produce the epochal change known as the Industrial Revolution . The impact of these developments on social...period of hegemony was ending, as both Germany and the United States were surpassing it in industrial production. World...Commonwealth of Nations ) and with treaty nations. Recovery from the depression began to be evident in 1933. Although old export industries such as coal mining...
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Germany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Socialists and the Nationalists. On Mar. 23, the Enabling Act, opposed only by the Social Democrats and the disbarred...chancellor, he began the "coordination" ( Gleichschaltung ) of every aspect of German life. Young persons were organized...governments were abolished, and the adherents of National Socialism from 1934 made up the sole legal party...later as chief planner of the war economy. In Oct., 1933, Hitler withdrew from the Geneva Disarmament Conference...Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, the Balkan states, and Greece. Great Britain, particularly London and other industrial areas, was subjected to massive German air attacks...attack on Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the United States. In 1942, the tide of the war began to turn...went largely unenforced, and West Germanys remarkable recovery and reindustrialization soon began. The rebuilding...
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