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In 1927, the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce and the city jointly purchased the land that would become home to a municipal auditorium after voters approved a $4 million bond for the site. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs in the 1930s contributed 55 percent of the cost of building through the Public Works Administration. J. O.
Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]
Oklahoma was won in a landslide by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 73.30 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 26.70 percent of the popular vote. [3]
Federal Records Centers (FRCs) exist in each region that house materials owned by federal government agencies. Federal Records Centers are not open for public research but, in many cases, may be housed in the same complex or building as a National Archives regional office. [ 15 ]
Designating the Federal Power Commission as an Agency to Aid the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works August 19, 1933 214 6252 August 19, 1933 215 6253 August 19, 1933 216 6254 August 19, 1933 217 6255 August 19, 1933 218 6256 August 19, 1933 219 6257 August 19, 1933 220 6258 August 22, 1933 221 6258-A August 26, 1933 222 6258-B
(This was during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, when federal legislation had authorized tribes to restore self-government.) From the 1930s into 1960s, the City of Okmulgee used the Creek Council House variously as a sheriff's office, a Boy Scout meeting room, and a YMCA.
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was a program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, building on the Hoover administration's Emergency Relief and Construction Act. It was replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Roosevelt transferred the Federal Emergency Relief Administration land program to the Resettlement Administration under Executive Order 7028 on May 1, 1935. [ 3 ] However, Tugwell's goal of moving 650,000 people from 100,000,000 acres (400,000 km 2 ) of agriculturally exhausted, worn-out land was unpopular among the majority in Congress. [ 4 ]