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[[image - Franklin Roosevelt]]

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, 1933-45
Seventy-third Congress, 1933-34
Emergency Bank Acts ◼︎ Agricultural Adjustment Act ◼︎ Unemployment Relief Act ◼︎ Tennessee Valley Authority ◼︎ Gold Repeal Joint Resolution ◼︎ Employment Service Act ◼︎ Home Owners Loan Act ◼︎ Farm Credit Act ◼︎ Glass-Steagall Act, creating Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ◼︎ National Industrial Recovery Act ◼︎ Truth in Securities Act ◼︎ Twenty-first Amendment, repealing prohibition ◼︎ Philippine Independence Act ◼︎ Securities and Exchange Act ◼︎ Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act ◼︎ National Housing Act ◼︎ Federal Farm Mortgage Act ◼︎ Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act ◼︎ Crim Control Acts ◼︎ Federal Communications Act ◼︎

Seventy-fourth Congress, 1935-36
National Labor Relations Act ◼︎ Social Security Act ◼︎ Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act ◼︎ Rural Electrification Act ◼︎ Revenue Acts, reforming corporate income tax ◼︎ Walsh-Healy Act, requiring government contractors to pay prevailing wages

Seventy-fifth Congress, 1937-38
Establishment of Maritime Commission ◼︎ United States Housing Authority Act ◼︎ "Pump Priming" Act ◼︎ Fair Labor Standards Act, setting minimum wages and maximum hours ◼︎ Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act ◼︎ Civil Aeronautics Act
Seventy-seventh Congress, 1941-42
Lend Lease Act ◼︎ Emergency Price Control Act ◼︎ Second War Powers Act

[[image - Harry S. Truman]]

HARRY S. TRUMAN, 1945-53
Seventy-ninth Congress, 1945-46
Bretton Woods Agreement Act, authorizing United States participation in the International Monetary Fund and World Bank ◼︎ Full Employment Act ◼︎ Permanent authorization for school lunch programs ◼︎ United Nations Participation Act ◼︎ Authorization of British Loan Act ◼︎ Atomic Energy Control Act ◼︎ Legislative Reorganization Act ◼︎ Veterans' Emergency Housing Act

Eightieth Congress, 1947-48
Greek-Turkish Aid Act ◼︎ Foreign Relief Act ◼︎ Presidential Succession Act ◼︎ National Security Act, unifying armed forces ◼︎ Foreign Aid Act ◼︎ Displaced Persons Act

[[image - Dwight D, Eisenhower]]

PRESIDENT EISENHOWER WILL BE REMEMBERED AS THE PRESIDENT WHO SENT FEDERAL TROOPS IN TO INSURE INTEGRATION IN THE LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL SYSTEM.

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