President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first "fireside chat" on this day in history, March 12, 1933, to reassure and inform a nation reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. This was the ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats were a series of approximately 30 evening radio addresses delivered between 1933 and ...

Actually the top rate had increased not decreased to 25 percent, in 1930 from 24 percent in 1929. But that’s a minor point. When Roosevelt took office in March 1933, the top income tax rate had stood ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt led the country through a devastating depression, laid the groundwork for today’s worker protections and modern Social Security and then saw the U.S. through World War ...

Q. What was Chattanooga's connection to the attempted assassination of President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933? A. On the evening of Feb. 15, 1933, Franklin Moore, manager of the Read House, ...

Q. What former resident gained notice in 1933 by proposing FDR appoint an all-woman Cabinet? A. The life of Lorine Pruette, it could be argued, was a testament to the power of libraries. She all but ...