President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first "fireside chat" on this day in history, March 12, 1933, to reassure and inform a nation reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. This was the ...

Inaugural address highlights going back to FDR, paired with dramatic images and facts, tell the story of modern America ...

Actually the top rate had increased not decreased to 25 percent, in 1930 from 24 percent in 1929. But that’s a minor point. When Roosevelt took office in March 1933, the top income tax rate had stood ...

While FDR's inaugural speech from 1933 after defeating Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election did give rise to one of the most famous presidential quotes in U.S. history, or at the very least a highly ...

If Gus Menafee ever has a son he will probably name him Franklin Roosevelt Menafee. During the War, Gus was a seaman on the destroyer Fanning. When a petty officer was said to have attacked him with a ...

Heading into 2022, many people are fearing — fearing inflation and ongoing mental exhaustion, fearing severe illness due to the surging COVID-19 Omicron variant, and fearing the probability of another ...

Ninety-one years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pulled off the greatest heist in American history. Unlike most robberies, this one was entirely legal. No safe-cracking was required; no ski ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt led the country through a devastating depression, laid the groundwork for today’s worker protections and modern Social Security and then saw the U.S. through World War ...

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened: On May 27, 1933, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Securities Act of ...

A yellow-haired little girl with her milk teeth missing stood on the Button Lumber Co.’s wharf at Poughkeepsie one noon last week and waved frantic farewell to her grandfather on a big white yacht ...