Author Question: The National Recovery Administration (NRA) failed largely because a. businesses and labor ... (Read 218 times)

luvbio · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

The National Recovery Administration (NRA) failed largely because

a. businesses and labor aggressively and universally resisted any regulation of wages, prices, and hours by the agency.
b. it required too much self-sacrifice on the part of industry, labor, and the public.
c. Harold Ickes, the head of the agency, proved to be an incompetent administrator.
d. it did not provide enough protection for labor to bargain with management.
e. the agency did not have enough power to control business.

Question 2

The most humiliating failure during the Iran hostage crisis came when

a. the militant Muslim Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah of Iran.
b. the United States was exposed as trading arms to Iran for the freedom of hostages.
c. President Carter's attempted mission to rescue the hostages ended in disaster.
d. some of the U.S. hostages took the side of their Iranian captors.
e. the Iranians demonstrated their ability to drive up American oil prices.