National Industrial Recovery Act

American  

noun

1. an act of Congress (1933, declared unconstitutional in 1936) that enabled the president and the National Recovery Administration to formulate and execute measures for reducing industrial unemployment. NIRA, N.I.R.A.

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Example Sentences

Roosevelt’s National Industrial Recovery Act granted workers the right to collectively bargain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

The National Industrial Recovery Act — the foundational legislation of the New Deal — comes in at an economical 18 pages, but that hardly gives one a sense of its massive impact on the economy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024

The National Industrial Recovery Act, also known as the Blue Eagle Act, was the centerpiece of what is known as the First New Deal, which ran from 1933 to 1935.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2022

This case represented a challenge to the constitutionality of a law called the National Industrial Recovery Act.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021

One section of the National Industrial Recovery Act authorized the President to forbid the shipment in interstate commerce of oil produced or withdrawn from storage in violation of State law.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel