to the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act and the National Industrial Recovery Act, Roosevelt had won passage of 12 other major laws, including the Glass-Steagall Act (an important banking bill) and the Home Owners’ Loan Act, in his first 100 days in office. ...
According to Lahey, McIntire agreed with his assessment of the situation, although it’s unknown exactly how much information he passed along to his powerful patient. In any case, Lahey dated his memo on July 10, 1944. Ten days later, Roosevelt accepted the Democratic nomination for a fourth...
Log In Sign Upexpand_more Sign up forlearn Sign up forwrite Sign up forplus What was FDR’s New Deal? Explanation: President Roosevelt took office at a time when the USA was struggling under the Great Depression. Triggered by the stock market crash in 1929, the economic crisis had escalat...
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Four days after the court’s ruling, Roosevelt delivered his response. With a cloud of cigarette smoke filling the Executive Office and the press standing in attention, Roosevelt declared the decision “was more important than any decision probably since the Dred Scott case,” historian Frederick ...
Now the second-largest burger chain behind McDonald's, Burger King's logo has undergone quite a transformation since those early days of bankruptcy. In 1969, the company debuted its first burger-shaped logo, with two golden buns and the company name acting as the patty. In 1999, the logo...
During the toughest days of the Great Depression, with millions of Americans unemployed and the nation losing its confidence, a wheelchair-bound man from Hyde Park, New York, stood tall to secure America’s future. He lifted this nation up again during the darkest years of World War II, wit...
Intense and driven by nervous energy, Goldberg recalled, Hopkins reported to work “looking as though he had spent the previous night sleeping in a hayloft. He would wear the same shirt three or four days at a time. He managed to shave almost every day—usually at the office.” In 1928...
For roughly 13 minutes, more than 60 million Americans listened as Roosevelt explained—in straightforward language designed “for the benefit of the average citizen”—what the federal government had done in the past few days to address the banking crisis, why they had done it and what the ...
Roosevelt’s First Hundred Days Addressing the Public By the Fireside President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who took office in early 1933, would become the only president in American history to be elected to four consecutive terms. He would lead his nation through two of the greatest crises in...