*Houston Business man - founder of Humbile Oil and Refinding Company and owner of the Houston Post-Dispatch.

*States economic troubles dominated his two years in office.

*clashed with legistlative over expenditures, vetoing numerous appropriation bills that were without sufficient revenue to finance them.

*Refused to support proposal for direct government aid to the unemployed.

*His reaction to the East TX Oil boom and the proposed :Cotton Holiday" Plan did politcal harm and geatly limited his re-electionc hances.

*70 year old "wildcatter (someone searching for oil where no on believed any existed.

*Made his living through constant promotion.

*His "Daisy Bradford No.3 punctured the largest reservior of oil in the contiguous.

*At the height of the boom, there were over a thousand producing wells within the city limits of Kilgore itself.

-led to decline in oil prices ($1 to $.10)

--small producers increased their production to make up the difference.

*Shipping & producing tremendous amounts of petroleum above assigned quotas.

*Gov. Sterling enforced martial law.

*Overproduction

*Eliminate large cotton surpluses and raise low prices by ceasing all planting in 1932.

*TX produced 1/3 of South's cotton crop, the plan could not go into effect until TX legislature declined participate.

*In TX legislature killed the cotton bill.

legislature passed bill limiting cotton acreage.

*Judge said the law violated the state and fed. constitution law was voided.

*Feignsons portrayed sterling as a rich uncaring millionaire. - Fergusins = champions of common man.

*Proposed to lower taxes.

*Defeated sterling w/ 62% of vote.

*bank panic

*Banks forced to close on March 2,1933 by Gov. Ferguson.

*Rosevelt issued a "bank holiday" closing all nation's banks.

*allowed time to craft apppropiate relief measures,

*Act countinued the banking holiday until gov. inspectors could evaluate each individual bank's financial situtation.

*Jeese Jone's RFC provided this aid, by buying a bank's preferred stock.

*Banking system stablized with gov releif and that.

*Provide funds for the needy on basis of one fed. dollar for every three provided by the states.

*To determind level of need and to distribute the funds, the legislature created the TX State Rehab. and Relief Commission.

*Senate inevestigated and provided evidence of malfeasance, including favortisim in the selection of clients, use of releif funds to pay poll taxes of recipeints, diversion of relief money to make improvements on private property.

*Specialized in large scale work projects; public builings, highways, bridges, pors, damns, naval vessels, municipal sewers, and water treatment plants.

*$100 Million to fun 922 projects.

*Projects: Mansfield dam, port of Brownsville UT Main Buildings, Houston Municipal (Hobby) Airport.

*Put dollars in unemployed hands.

*Gave jobs to 8 million unemployed Americans (Mostly constructution jobs.)

*Conserve Nation's natural and human resources.

*50,000 young Texans served in CCC

*Involved buildings or maintain state and national parks and forests.

*Provided educational opprounities.

*Youth program under the Works Progress Adminstration.
*Provided jobs for eligible youth  who either could not or would not enlist in the CCC.

*had two main programs.

1. Provided part time jobs for high schol and college students on their campuses.

2. Aided out-of-school youth through work programs that later severed as the inspiriation for the Job Corps.

*Paid farmers in exchange for destruction of up to 1/3 of their crops.

"plow-up campaign"- was a massive effort needing quick implementation before harvest time.

*Fulfilled the desire of growers wishing to have compulsory producttion.

*If two/thirds of southern growers agreed in an annual referendum, the AAA would assign production quotas for the next season.

*Removal of native grass by grazing and plowig combined by extended dry spell of dry weather.

*Huge duststorms, blackened skies for hoyrs @ a time - making life unhealthy for local residents and lethal for many animals and cops.

*Paid farmers for soil conservatin practices.

*Would recieve checks for diverting acreage formerly used to raise "soil-depleting crops" (cotton) to "soil-building cops" (grasses and legumes).

-Struggled to help clients despite low appropriations and strong conservation criticism.

-constructed and maintained sanitary camps for migratory works.

*Continued the RA's work while appearing to address the specific converns of southern tenant farmers and sharcropppers, which were highlighted in a report issued b a presidential commision invetigation these issues.

*Provided low interest loans to communities that established cooperatives consisting of rural residents.

*Loans paid for laying down power lines in localities that private electric companies had previously ignored.

*electrification provided rural Americans with an escape from the pre-industrial age.

*Centre of the federal government's effort to revive the American industrial economy.

*In return for suspending federal antitrust las, the gov. allowed the nation's industries to work with labor and government representatives to established minimum prices and production levels.

*Idea was to elliminate cutthroat competition in the midest of Depression.

*One section of NRA guaranteed min case.

*Proved diffficult to Administer.

*Outlawed unfair labor practices (such as employing spies).

*Guaranteed right of workers to orgranize, and created the National Labor Relation Board.

*Estalished a national minimum wage, initially set at $.25 per hour.

*Legislation failed to include agriculutural and domestic workers.

*Law required overtime pay at a raye of 1.5 times the regular hourly wage for work performed over a weekly maxium.

*Outlaw child labor in the US.