Editor’s note: In the midst of the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Industrial Recovery Act into law June 16, 1933.

His first-term achievements, the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Agricultural Adjustment Act, sought to organize the economy into a system of legal cartels while, absurdly enough ...

This phrase accompanied the Blue Eagle, an emblem created to increase compliance with the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933. Economists rarely agree on much, but we are nearly unanimous in ...

Then the documentary mentioned the NRA, the National Industrial Recovery Act administered by the National Recovery Administration. The logic of this act seems weird, especially in retrospect.

Out from under the final scrimmage on Capitol Hill last week squeezed a final version of the National Industrial Recovery Act, ready for the President’s signature. A compromise between House and ...

Serious mistakes were indeed made. In particular, the National Industrial Recovery Act was fundamentally ill-conceived and retarded economic recovery. But in terms of fiscal policy, Roosevelt's ...

Roosevelt proclaimed an “unlimited national emergency” during a radio ... draft card outside a Boston courthouse, ruling that the act was not protected by freedom of speech.

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History probably will record the National Industrial Recovery Act as the most important and far-reaching legislation ever enacted by the American Congress. It represents a supreme effort to ...

Fearful that such practices will force many Negroes now employed into idleness, some are suggesting that the codes of the National Industrial Recovery Act provide a dual wage scale -- one that ...