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 ...

Eleanor Roosevelt, who was likely queer, held the first press conference by a first lady in the East Wing, and the wing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The White House last week filled with preholiday social activities. As house guests the President and Mrs. Roosevelt had Mrs. William Randolph Hearst and Mr. Jacques F. Danielson & wife (Fannie Hurst) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...