Nevada. State Planning Board

In the depression decade of the 1930s the states instituted "little New Deals." These were agencies and programs that paralleled, cooperated with, and assisted the federal agencies and programs designed to bring about relief, recovery, and reform. The early years of the Nevada State Planning Board offer an example of such an operation.

The roots of the Planning Board are found in federal programs. In 1933 the National Planning Board of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (FEAPW), headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, urged state governments to establish planning boards. In Nevada, Acting Governor Morley Griswold, in January of 1934, appointed seven men to serve as the State Planning Board. Lacking funds and a legislative basis, it was not an effective body.

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