Volume 16 , Issue 9

Walking With Sadie

Well, wouldn't you know it. NW Okie goes to head south towards Houston, Texas and leaves this Sadie Pug in the snowy mountains of Southwest Colorado. And all she sent me back was this image of the Houston skyline taken looking East at the Texas Medical Center.

4 March was the anniversary of The New Deal that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established in 1933 during the Great Depression. Besides the CCC,SEC, FHA, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), along with the WPA (Works Progress Administration), and The most famous measure of the New Deal was the 1935 Social Security Act, which led to the establishment of the Social Security Administration and the creation of a national system of old age pensions and unemployment compensation. The following is a timeline of the New Deal legislation in 1933:

New Deal Legislation

March 9 - Emergency Banking Act
March 20 - Government Economy Act
March 22 - Beer-Wine Revenue Act
March 31 - Creation of Civilian Conservation Corps
April 19 - Abandonment of Gold Standard
May 12 - Federal Emergency Relief Act
May 12 - Agricultural Adjustment Act
May 12 - Emergency Farm Mortgage Act
May 18 - Tennessee Valley Authority Act
May 27 - Securities Act
June 5 - Abrogation of Gold Payment Clause
June 13 - Home Owners Loan Act
June 16 - Glass-Steagall Banking Act
June 16 - National Industrial Recovery Act
June 16 - Emergency Railroad Transportation Act
June 16 - Farm Credit Act

Do not forget to Spring your clocks and time pieces ahead this Saturday evening. Will Spring show up, also?

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