For two years, confused states celebrated on two separate days. — -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt confused plenty of people in 1939 when he issued a presidential proclamation moving ...
As November sometimes has five Thursdays, this meant that the holiday could fall as late as the last day of the month. When that occurred under the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, ...
WASHINGTON — The year that is drawing to its close has been filled with the curse of parched fields and charred skies. To these torments, which are so constantly suffered, others have been added: ...