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FDR: The first objectives of emergency legislation of 1933 were to relieve destitution, to make it possible for industry to…

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The first objectives of emergency legislation of 1933 were to relieve destitution, to make it possible for industry to operate in a more rational and orderly fashion, and to put behind industrial recovery the impulse of large expenditures in Government undertakings.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt outlines the primary goals of the emergency legislation enacted in 1933 to combat destitution and support industrial recovery.

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