Blackwell Smith papers 1933-1984

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Blackwell Smith papers 1933-1984

The papers of Blackwell Smith, legal counsel for theUnited States National Recovery Administration from 1933-1935.

0.45 cubic ft. (1 box)

eng,

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Smith, Blackwell, 1904-

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Blackwell Smith (b. Richard Blackwell Smith) was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 4, 1904. He received his Bachelor of Law at Columbia in 1929, and was admitted to the New York bar the same year. From 1933-1935, Smith worked as General Counsel and Assistant Administrator for Policy for the National Recovery Administration (NRA). The NRA was established by the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) in 1933, and was FDR's primary New Deal agency. Its goal was to create "codes of fair comp...

United States. National Recovery Administration

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