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1939 – Nazi Germany invades Poland; World War II begins; 1939 – Cash and carry proposed to replace the Neutrality Acts; 1939 – President Roosevelt, appearing at the opening of the 1939 New York World's Fair, becomes the first president to give a speech that is broadcast on television. Semi-regular broadcasts air during the next two years
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Even so, Congress' ability to levy taxes was still governed by Article 1 Section 9 Clause 4 of the Constitution. β – Section 1 of the Seventeenth Amendment, regarding the six-year term of office for senators, was shortened for those persons whose term as senator ended on March 4, 1935, 1937, and 1939, by the interval between January 3 and ...
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The Constitution of the United States recognizes that the states have the power to set voting requirements. A few states allowed free Black men to vote, and New Jersey also included unmarried and widowed women who owned property. [1] Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying White males (about 6% of the population). [2]
The Farm Security Administration used photography to document poverty in rural America. Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on a mother of seven children, age thirty-two, in Nipomo, California, March 1936. However, rural America contained many isolated farmers scratching out a subsistence income.
May 25 – Remington Rand strike of 1936–37 begins. June A major heat wave strikes North America; high temperature records are set and thousands die. The first production model PCC streetcar, built by St. Louis Car Company, is placed in service by Pittsburgh Railways. June 7 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee is founded.
Having been ratified by nine of the thirteen states, the Constitution is officially established, and takes effect for those nine states. [54] June 25 • Ratification Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the Constitution (89–79). [38] [39] In addition to ratifying the constitution, Virginia requests that 20 alterations be made to it. [55]