BLUE EAGLE 2.0 or why we should demand a new National Industrial Recovery Act THE ORIGINAL BLUE EAGLE: When corporatist reform Democrat Franklin Roosevelt became president on March 4, 1933, his priority was to end the Great Depression and restore the normal functioning of American capitalism. A big part of his ‘100 days program’ was the National Industrial Recovery Act, the body that carried out that law the National Recovery Administration, NRA, (popularly known as “The Blue Eagle” because of its distinctive logo, often seen posted at businesses that participated in the program) chaired by WW I US Army logistics planner General Hugh Johnson, with the National Recovery Review Board, chaired by famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow, the tribunal that enforced the body’s...