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  2. Roosevelt family - Wikipedia

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    The Roosevelt family is an American political family from New York whose members have included two United States presidents, a First Lady, [1] and various merchants, bankers, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites. The progeny of a mid-17th century Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam, many members of the family became ...

  3. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia

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    Recorded December 8, 1941. Franklin Delano Roosevelt[a](January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United Statesfrom 1933 until his death in 1945. The longest serving U.S. president, he is the only president to have served more than two terms.

  4. 1933 Banking Act - Wikipedia

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    The Banking Act of 1933 (Pub. L. 73–66, 48 Stat. 162, enacted June 16, 1933) was a statute enacted by the United States Congress that established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and imposed various other banking reforms. [1] The entire law is often referred to as the Glass–Steagall Act, after its Congressional sponsors ...

  5. First 100 days of the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency

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    The 100th day of his presidency was June 12, 1933. On July 25, 1933, Roosevelt gave a radio address in which he coined the term "first 100 days." [1][3] Looking back, he began, "we all wanted the opportunity of a little quiet thought to examine and assimilate in a mental picture the crowding events of the hundred days which had been devoted to ...

  6. Fireside chats - Wikipedia

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    The fireside chats were a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944.Roosevelt spoke with familiarity to millions of Americans about recovery from the Great Depression, the promulgation of the Emergency Banking Act in response to the banking crisis, the 1936 recession, New Deal initiatives, and the course of ...

  7. Executive Order 6102 - Wikipedia

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    Executive Order 6102 is an executive order signed on April 5, 1933, by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt "forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States." The executive order was made under the authority of the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, as amended by the Emergency ...

  8. Francis R. Delano - Wikipedia

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    Delano was born in Lockport, New York on September 6, 1842. He was the son of Barna Ladd Delano (1807–1877) and Lavinia Wood ( née Ralph) Delano (1810–1866). [2] His paternal grandparents were Barnabas Delano and Ruth (née Ladd) Delano. Delano is sometimes confused with an older relative, Francis Roach Delano of Massachusetts, who was the ...

  9. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. - Wikipedia

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    Brown Brothers Harriman provides advisory, wealth management, commercial banking, and investor services for corporate institutions and high-net-worth individual clients. . Alongside the aforementioned services, the firm provides global custody, foreign exchange, private equity, merger and acquisitions, investment management for individuals and institutions, personal trust and estate ...