by Laurel | December 9th, 2013
From December 1933
If you read the verse in this cartoon, the NRA mentioned has nothing to do with National Rifle Association and everything to do with the National Recovery Administration. The National Recovery Administration was the primary New Deal agency established by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in 1933. The goal was to eliminate “cut-throat competition” by bringing industry, labor and government together to create codes of “fair practices” and set prices.
Codes of “fair practices” and set prices? Sounds interesting. Read more about FDR’s NRA.