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| 717682550 | Harold Ickes | secretary of the interior | |
| 717682551 | Harry Hopkins | secretary of commerce | |
| 717682552 | Cordell Hall | secretary of state | |
| 717682553 | Frances Perkins | first female to serve in cabinet; secretary of labor | |
| 717682554 | emergency banking relief act | authorizes treasury to reopen all banks that are safe and identify the second tier of the kind of safe banks. The reconstruction finance corporation will help out the kind of safe banks. It leaves bad banks closed. | |
| 717682555 | Glass-Steagall Act | persuaded people to put money back in banks; created FDIC | |
| 717682556 | Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation | government ensured banks | |
| 717682557 | truth in securities act | person who deals in selling to the public has an affirmative duty to notify the potential seller of the true value of stock | |
| 717682558 | security exchange commission | insider trading, got insider info about what was going to happen in the stock market | |
| 717682559 | homeowners association | Government agency set up to help people with their mortgages | |
| 717682560 | Civilian Conservation Corps | employed young men to plant trees, drain swamps, fight fires, etc. | |
| 717682561 | Federal Emergency Relief Administration | gives money to states to give to the unemployed | |
| 717682562 | Civil Works Administration | makes people work for the money previously just given out; jobs were often boondoggling | |
| 717682563 | Public Works Administration | builds schools, dams, runways | |
| 717682564 | Works Progress Administration | gets jobs for people who couldn't do manual labor - artists, writers, etc. | |
| 717682565 | Agricultural Adjustment Administration | subsidies through creating artificial scarcity by paying farmers to not produce some products - heightens prices; eliminates surplus; ultimately declared unconstitutional | |
| 717682566 | Federal Farm Loan Act | farmers can borrow from govt. so they won't be foreclosed upon | |
| 717682567 | Rural Electrification Administration | govt paid for electricity to be brought to isolated, rural towns | |
| 717682568 | natural industry recovery act | led to NRA | |
| 717682569 | National Recovery Administration | The goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices | |
| 717682570 | Section 7A in NIRA | labor has the right to organize and bargain collectively | |
| 717682571 | Tennessee Valley Authority | govt owns and distributes electricity; creates power plant at Muscle Shoals; made fertilizer | |
| 717682572 | Federal Housing Administration | federal loan program for first time home purchasers | |
| 717682573 | Social Security Act | took $ out of your paycheck for a forced retirement plan | |
| 717682574 | American Liberty League | conservative democrats (Al Smith) and republicans; think New Deal is too liberal and is destroying capitalism | |
| 717682575 | Father Charles Coughlin | anti-Semitic, Fascist radio talk show host | |
| 717682576 | Huey Long | Share the wealth policy, govt had to make everybody get $5000 a year | |
| 717682577 | Francis Townsend | calls for govt program to assist pension, assist elderly | |
| 717682578 | Al Landon | republican nominee in election of 1936 | |
| 717682579 | Schechter Poultry v. US | had violated quota on selling chickens; supreme court ruled NRA unconstitutional and in favor of Schechter | |
| 717682580 | Judiciary Organization Bill | if a court judge didn't step down by age 70, president could appoint a new court judge to "assist him" |
