This series consists of four subseries: records of the Regional Attorney, records of the Litigation Division, records of restitution activities, and records relating to miscellaneous administrative and personnel matters. The Regional Attorney, Litigation Division, and restitution subseries are further divided into two parts. The first part contains correspondence with state offices. The second part contains miscellaneous Washington and agency correspondence, memorandums, and reports.
The Regional Attorney records relate to state economic recovery acts, agency procedure, compliances cases and analyses, legal interpretations, and general office administration and supervision. The Litigation Division records relate to the docketing and dismissal of compliance cases before and after May 27, 1935, (the date the U.S. Supreme Court declared the mandatory codes section of the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional), weekly and monthly activity reports, code authorities, requests for Federal Trade Commission investigations, minutes of industry hearings, and individual compliance cases. Litigation Division records include a chronological compliance case card index. Restitution records relate to funds collected for violations of National Recovery Administration (NRA) labor and trade practice codes. This subseries also includes correspondence, reports, and office instructions. The miscellaneous administrative and personnel subseries contains expense vouchers, invoices, standard forms, application blanks, salary scale charts, time cards, and other records relating to office management.
The files relate to NRA activities in Region VII, which comprised Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming, and was headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.
