National Recovery > The New Deal
Frances Perkins
Proof of “Frances Perkins Explains the New Deal”
New York, Pictorial Review, March 1934
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 47
Writing “‘Depression’ is a word of despair. ‘Recovery’ is a word of hope,” Perkins here states: “The election of the fall of 1932 … was a vote against the depression – a bewildered people … voted overwhelmingly for what they called a ‘New Deal.’ And by that they meant apparently exactly what the term meant in its original card-playing sense in a different arrangement of trumps and aces in different hands.”
Gift of Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins
Speech of Secretary of Labor Perkins on Planned Recovery
Typescript with autograph corrections, Washington,
11 December 1933
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 46
This is the text of a radio address on the National Recovery Act delivered by Perkins at 10:45 p.m. on Monday, December 11, 1933. Note her emphasis of “living wage” by underlining the word “living” in paragraph three.
Gift of Frances Perkins
National Association of Manufacturers
Chart #1 of a series on the “Industrial Recovery Bill”
Broadside, New York, May 24, 1933
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 75
This chart of Senate Bill No. 1712 and HR Bill No. 5664, 73rd Congress, 1st Session, shows clearly the two-part nature of the “National Industrial Recovery Act:” the “Mobilization of Industry into Trade Associations,” and “A Huge $3,300,000,000 Program of Public-Works Construction.” The program would be administered by the National Recovery Administration (NRA) and the Public Works Administration (PWA).
Gift of Frances Perkins
National Recovery Administration
Bulletin No. 1 – 3
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 75
Gift of Frances Perkins