On March 9, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted the Emergency Banking Act to Congress.

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Hat tip, Michael Beschloss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_9

• 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.

FDR's First Hundred Days of New Deal reforms were pushed forward ninety years ago today with national Bank Holiday--here are President's appointments in White House Residence:

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Thu Mar 9, 2023: On this day, March 9, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted the Emergency Banking Act to Congress.

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1. If one ever has the chance to visit the FDR museum in...

...New Hyde Park, one should do so. There is a lot of info on his efforts to recover from the depression, including the banking act.

My wife and I have gone twice and are planning a 3rd visit for a Cornell symposium on the four freedoms speech.