Category Archives: Great Depression

FDR’s Alphabet Soup: Records from the Great Depression

Posted on 15 May 2013 by Catht

REA Rural Electrification Administration  The Rural Electrification Administration was created by Executive Order 7037 of May 11 under authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, approved April 8, 1935, (49 Stat. 115). Before the onset of the New … Continue reading →

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FDR’s Alphabet Soup: Records from the Great Depression

Posted on 15 April 2013 by Catht

AAA Agricultural Adjustment Agency/ Agricultural Adjustment Act 1933-1936, 1938-. NARA RG145.2, 145.3 The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was passed in 1933 under the premise that low farm prices resulted from overproduction. The governments aim was to stimulate farm prices by … Continue reading →

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FDR’s Alphabet Soup: Records from the Great Depression

Posted on 30 January 2013 by Catht

NRA (National Recovery Administration/ National Industrial Recovery Act) 1933- 1936            (declared unconstitutional 1935). The mission of the NRA was to draw up trade codes of fair competition, to set up a managed economy by relieving … Continue reading →

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