KC in the 30's: Rowdy Music Memories of America's Wildest City
Featuring Julia Lee and Walter Brown - Tommy Douglass' Band [sic] - Joshua Johnson - Pete Johnson - Baby Lovett - Jay McShann's Band - Bus Moten - Jesse Price - Crown Prince Waterford - Ben Webster - Charlotte Mansfield
The cover for this Capitol Records release--produced by Dave E. Dexter, Jr., in the early 1960s--depicts the infamous "businessman's lunch" at the Chesterfield Club, complete with the Club's signature cellophane-aproned waitresses and posters promoting "K.C. Blues Baseball To-Day" and the "NRA."
The National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal," the NRA (National Recovery Administration) oversaw the National Industrial Recovery Act, which "set up a system of self-government by industry under federal supervision ... [in which] each branch of industry was to draft a fair business code. The codes ... could be enforced in the federal courts" ("Roosevelt")
Although the act and the NRA enjoyed considerable popular support, at least for a while, "[i]n the end it was declared to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court" ("Roosevelt")
Source:
- "Roosevelt"
- Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia. 1996 Edition. Compton's NewMedia, 1996.
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