Eras: 1929–1941

1929–1941

Fifty Years Hence

The great mass of human beings, absorbed in the toils, cares and activities of life, are only dimly conscious of the pace at which mankind has begun to travel. We

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1929–1941

That Noble Dream

In a thought-provoking paper read at the last meeting of the American Historical Association Mr. Theodore Clarke Smith laid his colleagues under a deep obligation.1His essay is not only significant

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World War II
1929–1941

Annual Message to Congress (1940)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “Message to Congress – State of the Union Address (speech file 1262),” in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940, FDR

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Annual Message to Congress (1939)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “Annual Message to Congress (speech file 1191C),” in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939, FDR Papers (Washington, DC: FDR Presidential

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1929–1941

Annual Message to Congress (1937)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “Message to Congress – State of the Union (speech file 1028),” in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937, FDR Papers

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Annual Message to Congress (1936)

Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Annual Message to Congress,” January 3, 1936. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15095. . . . I realize that I

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