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In 1939, President Roosevelt would move the date to the fourth Thursday of November at the request of business leaders, making the holiday on November 23 for the first time. For that year only, the holiday was observed on the 23rd by the federal government, but on the 30th in some U.S. states.
November 8 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed. November 11 – Dust Bowl : In South Dakota , a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands (one of a series of disastrous dust storms this ...
The 77th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. , from January 3, 1941, to January 3, 1943, during the ninth and tenth years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency .
As it was adopted on January 23, 1933, Section 1 shortened the terms of representatives elected to the 73rd Congress (1933–1935), as well as those of senators elected for terms ending in 1935, 1937, and 1939, by 60 days, by ending those terms on January 3 of each odd-numbered year rather than the March 4 date on which those terms originally ...
November 4, 1933 383 6406 November 6, 1933 384 6407 ... 1933, Excusing Federal Employees in the District of Columbia from Duty December 23 and 30, 1933
The AAA was the first federal agricultural program to operate on such a large scale, and it established a long-lasting federal role in the planning of the entire agricultural sector of the economy. [ 44 ] [ page needed ] In 1936, the Supreme Court declared the AAA to be unconstitutional for technical reasons.
November 4 is the 308th day of the year ... 1933 – Tito Francona, ... German Federal Minister of Health; 1976 – Bruno Junqueira, Brazilian race car driver;
The Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation was one of the so-called alphabet agencies set up in the United States during the 1930s as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Created in 1933 as the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, its name was changed by charter amendment on November 18, 1935. In 1937 its administration was ...