Congress stayed in session day and night for a hundred days, passing bills that were urged by Roosevelt. This period of the New Deal is referred to as the Hundred Days (Huff 374). ... A state Emergency Relief Administration used funds from the FERA to build highways, bridges, and other public works. ... In 1935 the FERA was replaced with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to furnish millions of jobs for the unemployed (Huff 375). ... In 1936 the Public Works Administration (PWA) had made several million dollars available for building two separate housing projects in the northeastern s...

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One of the most memorable and recognized time for the president is known as the "First Hundred Days.... Next was the Works Progress Administration, which employed thousands of unemployed unskilled laborers to perform public works projects, such as the construction of railroads and buildings. ... There was also the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Civil Works Administration. ...

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During the depression Roosevelt tried one thing after another such as, heavy spending, public works, direct relief, NRA codes, regulation of industry and restrictions on spending. ... In addition, " there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments ." 3 FDR closed all banks two days after he was inaugurated. ... Towards the end of the hundred days they passed the National Industrial Recovery Act. ... The Works Progress Administration created employment for artists and supported cultural activities around the nation. ... Some of the other federal assistance to fa...

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The first of Roosevelt's schemes was the 100 days'. The 100 Days' was a relief program in which Roosevelt passed 15 laws which tackled some of America's biggest problems, all within 100 days. ... The Civilian Works Administration (C.W.A.) was a work creation programme for 4 million men. ... The C.W.A. was replaced by the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) The W.P.A. conducted large public works. ...

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During the first hundred days of his presidency, Roosevelt set forth his plan for national recovery, known as the First New Deal. ... With Democratic majorities in Congress, he was able to push through a large number of measures, making the first hundred days of his presidency an unprecedented period of government action. ... The hundred days lasted until June 16, on which date another very important piece of legislature was passed, the National Industrial Recovery Act, which created the National Recovery Administration (NRA) to manage the recovery of the industry and finance economies (McElva...

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After seeing original Cubist works by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso at the first Moderne Kunstkring exhibition in 1911 in Amsterdam, Mondrian decided to move to Paris. ... Like Napoleon's return to France from exile on Elba, this special session of Congress during which FDR found his agenda accepted was known as the "hundred days."" ... Just four days later this act was passed into law, giving him the first major success of his presidency only six days after his assumption of the office. ... Over the next several months he succeeded in having passed 13 other very important p...

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These bills were enacted over the "Hundred Days" from March until June 1933. ... The Public Works Administration gave contracts to idle construction companies to build things like roads and ships. ... The Emergency Relief Appropriation Act established public works programs for millions of people in 1935. ...

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This act brought in another organization called the Public Works Administration, which organised and funded the building of dams, hospitals, schools, airports, etc. this created millions more job opportunities. The National Recovery Administration (NRA) was also set up and this got rid of child labour, introduced a minimum wage and 8 hour days and this helped employment. ... In 1935 another organization formed called the Works Progress Administration and this funded various projects such as schools, roadwork's and hospitals and also the Federal Theatre project which employed playwrights...

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Within days, he was fulfilling this pledge by pressing acts through Congress at a rapid rate. Many called this legislation an "alphabet soup" of acts that would bring relief, set regulations, and create public works initiatives unlike anyone had ever seen (Gordon 303). ... The first one hundred days of Roosevelt's administration set in motion a number of Acts that continue to influence American citizens in the twenty-first century. ...

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A second New Deal was initiated by the Roosevelt administration to relieve flood control, public works, and housing. ... There are so many eerie similarities these days to the era of the Great Depression that we must not ignore them. ...

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Known as the "First 100 Days", Roosevelt came up with new programs to help the United States. ... Programs such as CWA (Civil Works Administration) and CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) offered temporary jobs to the unemployed in areas like building railroads and constructing schoolhouses. ...

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Although these days the president is seen as a person who is more than just a figurehead, the leader of the free world is still bound to the laws that Congress has made. ... The checks and balance system works so well in forcing all of the branches to work with one another to ensure the best country for American citizens....

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In 1929, James San Jule's father was a successful businessman in Tulsa, Oklahoma. San Jule graduated from Tulsa Central High School and had been accepted at Amherst College in Massachusetts and planned to go on to Harvard Law School after that. Because he was quite young, his father wanted him to wa...

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The Great Depression was a devastating time for many people. There were many lost jobs and homes. The time frame was from about 1929 until approximately 1939. There were many events leading up to the depression and many outcomes. The actual date of the events or what the exact causes were are di...

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"Again and again, observers resorted to the imaginary of darkness and light to characterize the transformation from the Stygian gloom of Hoover's final winter to the bright springtime of the First Hundred Days."... "Though women never got their fair proportions of places, the WPA (Works Progress Administration) at one point had more than four hundred thousand women on its rolls, and programs such as to mothers with dependent children under the Social Security Act targeted women as beneficiaries."...

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Development and Usage of the Atomic Bomb Logically, there is no obstacle for a nuclear or atomic bomb and right now there are no secrets in Nuclear Science. Anyone with a reasonable physics degree and access to a good technical library could design a workable atomic bomb in less than six month...

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