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Whoops, sorry -- meant to reply to the question about the NRA earlier, but got sidetracked.
The National Recovery Administration was one of President Franklin Roosevelt's main federal agencies for setting policies in order to assist the country's recovery during the Great Depression.
The NRA involved a huge campaign to get the public involved in the recovery, and many business displayed the now-famous posters with the blue eagle holding a gear and some bolts in its talons with the motto "We Do Our Part." (An image can be found here. I'm almost positive it was the same poster seen in the episode.)
The NRA was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1935. The NRA was basically a system intended to police the economic system and attempted to organize every aspect of the national industry under its supervision, to directly deal with production and prices especially. This proved such an invasive method that it was contested, and the Court agreed.
quote:Second, you're a history major and knows next to nothing about the closest years pre- and post-WWII USA, arguably the most important years of events since the Boston Teabagging???
Um... wouldn't the American Civil War have been the most important era since the Boston Tea Partying?
And why do you say that I know next to nothing? Was that a comment based on my silence, or what? I took a course over the summer that focused on the Great Depression and World War II in America, so I know a fair amount about that era.
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I second that. Anything that makes any event in the American War of Independance sound ridiculous...
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: I think he probably got the idea from your saying "I know next to nothing about that particular era".
Ah. I see where the confusion arose. That particular line was directed at your own hypothetical situation regarding the late 1500's -- which I really DON'T know much about aside from that of the info from a high school survey course.
But I definitely AM more familiar with many parts of western history, especially from the 1700's onward.
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