Eras: 1929–1941

1929–1941

Annual Message to Congress (1934)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “Washington, D.C. – Annual Message to Congress (speech file 673),” in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1934, FDR Papers (Washington,

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1929–1941

Annual Message to Congress (1932)

President’s Annual Message, 72nd Cong., 2nd sess., Congressional Record 76, p 1 S51. https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1932/12/06. To the Senate and House of Representatives: In accord with my constitutional duty, I transmit herewith

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Great Depression
1929–1941

Annual Message to Congress (1931)

President’s Annual Message, 72nd Cong., 1st sess., Congressional Record 75, p 1 S22. https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1931/12/08. To the Senate and House of Representatives: It is my duty under the Constitution to transmit

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Great Depression
1929–1941

Annual Message to Congress (1930)

Annual Message of the President of the United States, 71st Cong., 3rd sess., Congressional Record 74, p 1 S33. https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1930/12/02. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I have the honor to

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World War II
1929–1941

Inaugural Address (1941)

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Third Inaugural Address. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/210116 ON each national day of inauguration since 1789, the people have

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1929–1941

Address on Constitution Day

One hundred fifty years ago tonight, thirty-eight weary delegates to a Convention in Philadelphia signed the Constitution. Four handwritten sheets of parchment were enough to state the terms on which

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1929–1941

Penny-in-the-Slot Politics

There is one aspect of modern life which has struck me very much lately, and which deserves anxious attention: the elimination of the individual. Everywhere, in every country, in every

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1929–1941

Keepers of Democracy

Recently a radio broadcast was given, based on a story written by H. G. Wells some years ago, called “War of the Worlds.” For the purpose of dramatization it was

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