On this day in 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a selective service act that required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register with their local draft boards. The legislation ...

On this day in history, Aug. 2, 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act ... wear or display partisan buttons, T-shirts or signs, make political contributions to a partisan ...

On this day in 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, popularly known as the GI Bill of Rights. By the time that legislation expired in 1956 ...

On this day in history, June 22, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the GI Bill, an act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of the armed services for their service ...

The REA mounted a push to string electric ... Yet, there were no press reports of citizens packing guns to any Roosevelt appearance, with signs suggesting that the President should be killed.

Henry Steagall of Alabama, President Roosevelt made heard his support for housing reform in both his 1937 State of the Union and his second inaugural address. Roosevelt then went on to lobby ...

Roosevelt’s New Deal — to employ more than 8.5 million Americans on public works projects. Babe Ruth was preparing to play his first National League game for the Boston Braves, and American ...