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March 17 - President Roosevelt holds a press conference in which he speaks against a congressional movement to abolish the 40 hour work week. [105] Roosevelt also states his intent to ask Congress the following day for an increase of seventeen and a half billion toward army warplanes.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States Also attended by Count de Chambrun, Great-grandson of Lafayette 74th: January 4, 1935 Joint session State of the Union address: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States May 22, 1935 Joint session Veto message Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States January 3, 1936
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.
29th • March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923 Initiated on June 28, 1901, in Marion Lodge No. 70, Marion, Ohio. Raised on August 27, 1920 in that Lodge. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd • March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945 Initiated on October 11, 1911, in Holland Lodge No. 8, New York City.
One of his final stays in Florida was 91 years ago this month when President-elect Roosevelt spoke in downtown Miami on Feb. 15, 1933 — 17 days before his scheduled inauguration at the U.S. Capitol.
Theodore Roosevelt, shown here sitting in a steam shovel along the Panama Canal route in 1906, was the first president to visit a foreign country while in office. First president born in New York City. [180] First president who ascended to the presidency upon the death of a predecessor, and later was elected to the presidency in his own right.
Franklin Roosevelt set the current date. ... (Nov. 21) was declared the official Thanksgiving Day. In 1941, Roosevelt reportedly admitted that the switch was a mistake, but because the calendars ...
When the special session of Congress that had been called by Roosevelt opened on March 9, Congress quickly passed Roosevelt's Emergency Banking Act. Rather than nationalizing the financial industry, as some radicals hoped and many conservatives feared, the bill used federal assistance to stabilize privately owned banks. [17]