FDR and the Great Depression Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Fireside Chat Hoover, a Republican who had formerly served as U.S. secretary of commerce, believed that government should not directly intervene in the economy and that it did not have the responsibility to create jobs or provide econ...
This Morgan-Fed connection continues today: Before President Reagan named him chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan served as a corporate director for Morgan.Morgan was also the Roaring '20s emblem of securities abuse. The 1929 crash saw individual investors suffer as many banks, Morgan ...
The next day, once they had gotten onto the beach and were making progress, FDR took to the airwaves again in what would be one of the most outrageous speeches if it were given today. Imagine your president coming on the air, and saying this: Last night, when I spoke to you about th...
As the country welcomed its first female speaker of the house in 2007, its first African American president in 2008, and its first Latina Supreme Court justice in 2009, U.S. News was also having many firsts. The first paid advertising appeared on the website in 2000. Michael Barone, a ...
The famous restaurant has hosted every sitting president since FDR except for twoFacebook Twitter Comments Print Email By Michael Ruiz FOXBusinessVideo New York City’s iconic 21 Club, despite remaining a mainstay of the Big Apple's social scene for nearly a century, is the latest bar and ...
work that graces the iconic $20 Saint Gauden coin which served as money in the United States from 1907 until called-in by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. Interestingly, American Gold Eagles were created with the exact coins dimensions and alloy specifications as the gold Krugerrand. They ar...
Originally opened in 1936 for Macy’s ski apparel, the mountain features 13 trails, 1 terrain park and is served by 1 quad chair lift, 2 double chair lifts, and 4 carpet lifts. The mountain continues operations today as the oldest operating ski area in New York and one of the only fami...
when the Poonsters of ’01 reprinted the parody for their Fortieth and sent a copy to President Roosevelt. FDR, who had been a freshmanCrimsoneditor at the time, recalled it as “the first and only successful attempt on the part of theLampoonto get really funny at the expense of theCrims...
For decades, the N.A.A.C.P. had argued for integrating the military. During World War I, segregated units of black soldiers served in largely non-combatant roles in the Army, and as the only armed service branch to admit African-Americans by the start ...
“And I do think that some of these groups did weigh in on the President.”’ Yesterday as I was walking to the store, I heard some young boy behind me constantly asking his mom “why do you love Donald Trump’? His question was spot on but mommy’s answer was rather weak. I ...