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