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Operation Tamarisk was a Cold War-era operation run by the military intelligence services of the U.S., U.K., and France through their military liaison missions in East Germany, that gathered discarded paper, letters, and garbage from Soviet trash bins and military maneuvers, including used toilet paper.
The 1936 Madison Square Garden speech was a speech given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 31, 1936, three days before that year's presidential election.In the speech, Roosevelt pledged to continue the New Deal and criticized those who, in his view, were putting personal gain and politics over national economic recovery from the Great Depression.
April 8 - President Roosevelt designates the upcoming May 17 as "I Am An American Day". [123] The War Production board announces a small scale conversion of drinking liquor to industrial alcohol. [124] April 9 - The Department of Commerce reports an uptake of 52% in American merchandise exports from corresponding months of the previous year. [125]
Franklin D. Roosevelt and foreign affairs (FDR Library, 1969) 14 vol. online free to borrow; covers Jan 1933 to Aug 1939; 9 volumes are online Nixon, Edgar B, ed. (1969), Franklin D Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs (3 vol), covers 1933–37. 2nd series 1937–39 available on microfiche and in a 14 vol print edition at some academic libraries.
The fireside chats were a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944.Roosevelt spoke with familiarity to millions of Americans about recovery from the Great Depression, the promulgation of the Emergency Banking Act in response to the banking crisis, the 1936 recession, New Deal initiatives, and the course of ...
Evacuation Day is a holiday observed on March 17 in Suffolk County, Massachusetts (which includes the cities of Boston, Chelsea, and Revere, and the town of Winthrop), [1] and also by the public schools in Somerville, Massachusetts. [2]
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1941 - In Washington, DC, the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1950 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium". 1958 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.