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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]
It was in the 1935 speech were Roosevelt used the phrase "State of the Union", which began the common use of the term to describe the annual address. [2] A major focus was the creation of a social safety net, with Roosevelt emphasizing the need for unemployment insurance and old-age pensions, laying the foundation for the Social Security Act of ...
The Commonwealth Club Address (23 September 1932) was a speech made by New York Governor and Democratic presidential nominee Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco on his 1932 presidential campaign.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, to businessman James Roosevelt I and his second wife, Sara Ann Delano. His parents, who were sixth cousins, [ 3 ] came from wealthy, established New York families—the Roosevelts , the Aspinwalls and the Delanos , respectively—and resided at Springwood , a large ...
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.
The first term of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt began on March 4, 1933, when he was inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States, and the second term of his presidency ended on January 20, 1941, with his inauguration to a third term.
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 ...
LGBTQ students and advocates at BYU in Utah slammed the school for requiring all freshmen read a controversial 2021 speech that they say incited violence and hatred against the queer community.