Jan 28, 1938
It is a very glorious thing for us to think of what has been accomplished in our own lifetime to cure epidemic diseases, to relieve human suffering and to save lives.
FDR
The Public Record
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1933, until his death on April 12, 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in New York and is best known for his leadership during two of the most significant crises in American history: the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, a series of programs and reforms aimed at economic recovery and social welfare, which fundamentally reshaped the role of the federal government in American life.
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Jan 28, 1938
It is glorious to have one's birthday associated with a work like this.
Jan 28, 1938
Today the major fight of medicine and science is being directed against two other scourges, the toll of which is unthinkably great—cancer and infantile paralysis.
Jan 27, 1938
Well, so that the whole nation will engage in war if we unfortunately have one.
Jan 27, 1938
The time has come for the Congress to enact legislation aimed at the prevention of profiteering in time of war.
Jan 27, 1938
It is our clear duty to further every effort toward peace but at the same time to protect our Nation.
Jan 27, 1938
Adequate defense means that for the protection not only of our coasts but also of our communities far removed from the coast, we must keep any potential enemy many hundred miles away from our continental limits.
Jan 27, 1938
I believe also the time has come for the Congress to enact legislation aimed at the prevention of profiteering in time of war and the equalization of the burdens of possible war.
Jan 27, 1938
Our national defense is, in the light of the increasing armaments of other Nations, inadequate for purposes of national security.
Jan 26, 1938
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and in order to effectuate further the purposes of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act.
Jan 25, 1938
It is ordered that the following-described portion of the Boise Barracks Military Reservation located in township 3 north, range 2 east, of Boise meridian, County of Ada, State of Idaho, be, and it is hereby, transferred from the control…
Jan 25, 1938
I do hereby announce and proclaim the extension of the operation of that Act for an additional period of three years from and including May 1, 1938.
Jan 25, 1938
Seamen whose occupational status as such is found to be bona fide, entering the ports of the United States solely in the pursuit of their calling as seamen, may be admitted temporarily in the discretion of the Secretary of Labor and under…
Jan 24, 1938
Those who get the profits when industry gets the volume are the ones to bear the risk of such price reductions as may be necessary to stimulate and restore volume.
Jan 24, 1938
Industrialists kill the goose which lays the golden egg when they cut wages and thereby reduce purchasing power.
Jan 24, 1938
I am opposed to wage reductions because the markets of American industry depend on the purchasing power of our working population.
Jan 24, 1938
If we want to restore prosperity we must increase, not decrease, that purchasing power.
Jan 20, 1938
Our objective was to get it up to somewhere around that 100, and we did pretty well.
Jan 20, 1938
We are trying to see things from a national point of view, and we are making very distinct progress.
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