Through an executive order, President Roosevelt made the possession of monetary gold a crime in 1933.
Back then, President Roosevelt warned of the dangers of limitless corporate spending in our political system.
In 1935, President Roosevelt ordered a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
They asked President Roosevelt to move the holiday up from the 30th to the 23rd.
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He took a snap of a man selling newspapers reporting the death of President Roosevelt.
In 1941, President Roosevelt announced that U.S. forces had landed in Iceland to prevent a Nazi invasion.
In 1940 President Roosevelt's science adviser, Vannevar Bush, appointed Loomis to head the top-secret "Rad Lab" at MIT.
Remember that President Roosevelt was the first Presidential candidate to address the convention in 1932 in Chicago.
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In 1935 President Roosevelt tried to fire a conservative FTC commissioner contrary to federal law setting up the agency.
This time President Roosevelt did move Thanksgiving up a week to the 23rd.
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President Roosevelt understood that very notion in 1935 when the Federal Work Progress Administration was formed to provide jobs to unemployed Americans.
President Roosevelt and Hugh Johnson, his NRA czar, tried to pressure Ford into signing the code by shutting Ford out of any government contracts.
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The scientists contacted the German-born Albert Einstein, believing he was among the few men of sufficient stature able to gain the attention of President Roosevelt.
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Petitions speaking to Fahey's good character landed on President Roosevelt's desk.
In 1940, President Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William Mackenzie King met in Ogdensburg, New York, where they agreed to set up a joint defense commission.
Millions more carried out the fight in factories and shipyards here at home, building the arsenal of democracy that propelled America to the victory President Roosevelt foresaw.
Promptly after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt created a high-powered commission, headed by Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, to investigate how such a catastrophic surprise attack could have occurred.
Finally, President Roosevelt was elected four times to the Presidency.
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President Roosevelt inspired a breathtaking legacy of conservation that has forever enriched our lives, and in the decades since his historic journey, millions have worked to build on his enduring mission.
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Although he received a New York ticker-tape parade, he was snubbed by President Roosevelt, and, because of his color, failed to attract the commercial sponsorship deals awarded to his fellow white athletes.
Goldsmith contrasts the way President Bush has handled the terrorism problem with the way President Roosevelt handled his need for more power in the period leading up to and during World War II.
Among them was Jan Karski, a young Polish Catholic, who witnessed Jews being put on cattle cars, who saw the killings, and who told the truth, all the way to President Roosevelt himself.
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In 1939, as fascism began its march across Europe, Asia, and Africa, Albert Einstein warned President Roosevelt that the Nazis were racing to build a weapon, the likes of which the world had never seen.
America's oil strategy, a central tenet of U.S. foreign policy since President Roosevelt met King Saud aboard the U.S.S. Quincy in 1945 and cobbled together their "special relationship, " succeeded in fueling the low-cost, motorized American way of life.
He had stories dating back to before some of his admirers were born, such as the time in 1939 when he and Leo Szilard, another Hungarian scientist, persuaded Albert Einstein to write to President Roosevelt, urging the need to make an atomic bomb before the Germans did.
Most obviously, President Franklin Roosevelt took advantage of economic trauma in the 1930s to drive through a new economic agenda, as did President Ronald Reagan with his tax cuts in 1981.
Six years later, the National Gallery of Art was duly inaugurated by President Franklin Roosevelt.
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