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Omaha Steve

(103,477 posts) Wed May 27, 2015, 08:57 PM May 2015

5-27-15 On this day in Labor History the year was 1935 in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/may-27-unconstitutional/

The National Recovery Act or NRA!

On this day in Labor History the year was 1935. That was the day the United States Supreme Court unanimously declared the National Industrial Relations Act unconstitutional. The act had been passed just two years before, as the centerpiece of President Franklin Roosevelt’s plan to combat the Great Depression.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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