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Relations between the president and Senator Black were not always close. Soon after taking office, Roosevelt decided to postpone taking on the problems of industrial recovery, preferring instead to give encouragement to American industry to take the initiative in pursuing economic recovery. In December 1932 Senator Black, in complete disregard of the consensus of the president's conservative supporters, introduced a bill limiting the number of hours and days workers involved in interstate commerce could be required to work. Endorsed by both the American Legion and organized labor, the bill passed in the Senate and was sent on to the House of Representatives. Finding himself suddenly forced to take action, the president, upset that the proposed law would allow him no flexibility in its application, arranged for the introduction of another bill, soon to become law as the National Industrial Recovery Act, to counteract the far more...
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