It's the mid-thirties and Jimmy Durante is out there selling the N.R.A. No, not the National Rifle Association. This was the National Recovery Administration, a 1933 program introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to put the country back to work. It ended in 1935 when the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional but for a while, it was very popular with some in this country…and advertising like this short with Mr. Durante made it more popular. You may note that one of the actors in this film looks and sounds a lot like Moe Howard. That's probably because it was Moe Howard…
