FDR nominated for unprecedented third term
On this day in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America’s 32nd president, is nominated for an unprecedented third term. …
On this day in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America’s 32nd president, is nominated for an unprecedented third term. …
Americans had been thoroughly disillusioned by the First World War and were overwhelmingly opposed involvement in World War II. In a 1940 (election-year) speech, Franklin D. …
The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of Polish nationals carried out by the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret …
British historian Nesta Webster’s pamphlet-sized booklet was first published in the Oct-Nov edition of The Patriot. The author argues that there is no reason for …
Red Symphony -Interrogation of Christian Rakovsky, a Rothschild agent who was fighting for his life. His death sentence had already been pronounced. He basically said …
On July 2nd 1937 America’s “First Lady of Flight,” Amelia Earhart, along with her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared—at least from public view—in their two-engine Lockheed …
On November 3, 1936, the 32nd president won a smashing reelection victory, defeating Republican challenger Alf Landon by more than 24 points in the popular …
The Banking Act of 1935, which greatly increased Roosevelt’s power over the nation’s finances, was an integral part of the legislation by which he proposed …
Roosevelt’s original proposal for what would become the National Firearms Act of 1934, the first federal gun control law in the US, sought to tax …
William Wirt, a school superintendent from Gary, Ind., told a House committee about a dinner party he attended the year before where he heard frank …