Calendar image shows March 1933, with the 4th and 5th of March circled. View of St. Thomas’ Parish (1517 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20036, United States). Presidential limousine in church driveway. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) puts on his top hat. Presidential limousine carrying Franklin Roosevelt drives away from St. Thomas’ Parish. Inside the White House, President Franklin Roosevelt at his desk discussing with William H. Woodin, the United States Secretary of the Treasury. President Franklin Roosevelt signs a document. Sign announcing Bank Holidays on March 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1933, upon proclamation by President Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression. Guards stand outside a Northern Trust Company bank. Calendar shows March 1933, the 4th, 5th and 9th of March are encircled. United States Senate in session to pass President Franklin Roosevelt’s new banking measures, the Great Economy Bill. The senate claps for the new Speaker of the House, Henry Thomas Rainey. Calendar shows March 1933, the 4th, 5th, 9th and 12th of March are encircled. President Franklin Roosevelt speaks to the public through radio about the new banking measures. View of console radio and a family with a young child and a pet dog seated in their living room listening to Roosevelt’s speech on radio. View of several different men listening to radio. Middle-class family with five children listens to radio. President Franklin Roosevelt speaking to the people from his desk with a microphone for radio broadcast. A middle-class family listens to the radio with the children sitting on their parents’ laps. A rich family listens to radio together. A family with one teenage son listens to radio in living room. With regard to runs on banks, FDR notes that "hoarding during the past week has become an exceedingly unfashionable pastime...." He notes further that ,"it is up to you to support and make it work. It is your problem, my friends, no less than it is mine. Together we cannot fail.” President Franklin Roosevelt ends speech on the economy.
United States currency being printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, during the Great Depression. Female employee inspecting newly printed banknotes. Women employees inspect and arrange printed currency. Americans lined up at banks. Sign says “The Terminal National Bank of Chicago is Open for Business”. Clients wait in line in front of bank teller booth. United States banknotes and coins in teller booth. Bank teller replaces deposits of clients. Enthusiastic traders at the Great Chicago Wheat Pit. A board detailing prices of commodities such as what, oats, rye, barley and flax. Wheat traders open small bags of sample grains.
Calendar shows March 1933, some days are encircled. United States President Franklin Roosevelt at his desk after signing a law during the Great Depression. Narrator notes that with regard to Prohibition, "the end of the long drought was in sight." Farmers harvest vegetables. Turnips in crates after being harvested. Farmers pour turnips from crates. Farm workers sort out white onions. Farm workers arrange sacks of onions.
View of sheep grazing in hills of Western United States. Flock of sheep being herded. Wide landscape views of cattle grazing in American frontier. Cowboys herd the cattle. Cattle herd in long line. Calendar shows March 1933, some days are encircled marking actions the President was taking for relief for American citizens during the Great Depression. United States President Franklin Roosevelt at his desk, pondering.
United States President Franklin Roosevelt in meeting with lawmakers during the Great Depression. View of forest. A tree being felled. A Civilian Conservation Corps employee in tree after a part of it was felled. Logs being transported by train over long trestle bridge. Logs roll down to river. Civilian Conservation Corps employee surveys forest with binoculars.
Calendar shows March 1933, some days are encircled. United States President Franklin Roosevelt on his desk in the White House, signing the national law legalizing beer after a decade of Prohibition in the United States. View of the Cullen-Harrison Act (or the Beer Permit Act) signed by President Franklin Roosevelt. Workers clean up thick cobwebs in a brewery left untouched for 13 years. Men polish machinery used for brewing beer. Men shovel hops into tank. Worker operates brewery. Beer bottles cleaned and filled with beer through assembly line machine. Workers in beer bottling plant.
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