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Greensboro News & Record
March 18, 2018
Another school shooting, another debate over gun control. An overwhelming majority of Americans want stricter gun laws, but Congress is unlikely to ban assault-style rifles outright, and some of the president's proposals — a ban on “bump stocks,” for example — have unclear paths to success. But there isÃâà...
Politico
March 18, 2018
On this day in 1942, some four months after the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Relocation Authority. Its purpose, according to his executive order, was to “take all people of Japanese descent into custody, surround them with troops, prevent them fromÃâà...
Bangor Daily News
March 16, 2018
John Dillinger's arsenal is seen, April 24, 1934, after federal agents tried to capture him and his gang in their hideout in the Little Bohemia roadhouse in Mercer, Wis. Dillinger was among the gangsters mentioned as Congress debated the first significant federal gun-control law, the National Firearms Act ofÃâà...
The Daily Freeman
March 16, 2018
The student production of the musical “James and the Giant Peach” takes place this weekend in the theater at Franklin D. Roosevelt High School, 156 South Cross Road, Staatsburg. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Advance tickets are $11 for adults, $5 for seniors andÃâà...
The Daily Freeman
March 14, 2018
PHOTO PROVIDEDCast members of the Franklin D. Roosevelt High School musical "James and the Giant Peach" at a rehearsal. ... DETAILS: Three performances of the student production of “James and the Giant Peach” will take place this weekend in the theater at FDR High School. In the musical, whichÃâà...
New York Times
March 8, 2018
6, 1941, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt articulated the Four Freedoms — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear and freedom from want — in his annual address. “We had a ... “FDR's Freedoms” turns to Roosevelt's proclamation of the Four Freedoms as a reason to enter the war.
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 8, 2018
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who uttered that famous quote, lived in a time when Americans had a lot to fear: first from the Great Depression and then from World War II. Fear is front and ... FDR won a fourth term and George W. Bush a second based largely on the same promise: to keep America safe. World War IIÃâà...
Newnan Times-Herald
March 7, 2018
The Trump administration would like to slash what the government spends on food for low-income Americans. Its latest budget proposal calls for reducing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) outlays by $200 billion over the next decade and replacing about half of the aid delivered throughÃâà...
The Federalist
March 2, 2018
One of the more feverish accusations in the early years of the Cold War, the late 1940s, early 1950s, concerned Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his performance at the Yalta Accords in February 1945, which occurred as World War II was winding down and Soviet imperialism was becoming more apparent.
The Daily Freeman
March 1, 2018
Eleanor Roosevelt's story is brought to life in a one-woman show titled “Across a Barrier of Fear,” starring Jane Van Boskirk. It will be performed Sunday, March 4, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, 4079Ãâà...
The Delaware County Daily Times
February 25, 2018
Two tourists take photos Tuesday, April 22, 1997, at Springwood, the Roosevelt family home in Hyde Park, N.Y. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born here in the ... Here, on guided tours, visitors can see the bed where FDR was born, the wheelchair he used for navigation in the home, and other details of hisÃâà...
Politico
February 24, 2018
On this day in 1944, during World War II, the House voted 299-95 to override President Franklin D. Roosevelt's veto of the Revenue Act of 1943. When the Senate concurred on the next day, by a 72-14 vote, it marked the first time in U.S. history that Congress enacted a revenue law without presidentialÃâà...
The Daily Herald
February 19, 2018
Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a whistle-stop speech in Everett on Oct. 1, 1937, on his way from the Olympic Peninsula to Grand Coulee Dam. Truman made a second visit as president in 1952. Bill Clinton flew into Paine Field aboard Air Force One on Feb. 23, 1993, to promote his economic plan.
Politico
February 18, 2018
On this day in 1942, 10 weeks after a Japanese carrier force bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that led to the forced removal of some 112,000 Japanese-Americans, most of them U.S. citizens, from their homes, to be relocated in internment camps inÃâà...
The Conversation US
February 15, 2018
FDR's administration then adopted a new model in 1939 that used food stamps for the first time in a short-lived program. Low-income people could buy stamps and redeem them for groceries worth 50 percent more than what they spent – as long as they spent the bonus ones on items designated asÃâà...
The American Conservative
February 7, 2018
Conrad Black has written biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, a strategic history of the United States, and The History of Canada, is a weekly contributor to the National Review Online, frequently appears elsewhere in American, Canadian, and British publications, was the chairman ofÃâà...
CNN
February 7, 2018
There was one in January 1941, for example, after Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration to an unprecedented third term in office. That past spring all the European democracies, with the exception of Great Britain, had fallen to the relentless Nazi forces, and in Asia, Japan had extended its reach into China.
Lynchburg News and Advance
December 31, 1999
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his 30 radio addresses that came to be known as "fireside chats," telling Americans what was being done to deal with the nation's economic crisis. AP. 1864: Ulysses S. Grant. 1864: Ulysses S. Grant. In 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assumedÃâà...
Omaha World-Herald
December 31, 1999
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his 30 radio addresses that came to be known as "fireside chats," telling Americans what was being done to deal with the nation's economic crisis. AP. 1864: Ulysses S. Grant. 1864: Ulysses S. Grant. In 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assumedÃâà...
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