Franklin D. Roosevelt

March 4, 1933 to April 13, 1945

Year

Date

Document Title

1933

March 4, 1933

Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address

 

March 6, 1933

Roosevelt’s Proclamation Declaring A Bank Holiday

 

March 9, 1933

Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933

 

March 9, 1933

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on Resumption of Banking

 

March 10, 1933

Roosevelt’s Executive Order Reopening Banks

 

March 11, 1933

Roosevelt’s Statement on Reopening Banks

 

March 21, 1933

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on Unemployment Relief

 

April 5, 1933

Roosevelt’s Executive Order Starting the Civilian Conservation Corps.

 

April 10, 1933

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress Suggesting the TVA

 

May 4, 1933

Roosevelt’s Address to the Chamber of Commerce about Recovery Program

 

May 12, 1933

Roosevelt’s Statement on Signing the Farm Relief Bill

 

May 12, 1933

Roosevelt’s Statement on Signing the Unemployment Relief Bill

 

May 12, 1933

The Agricultural Adjustment Act {excerpt}

 

May 17, 1933

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress Recommending the National Industrial Recovery Act

 

May 18, 1933

Tennessee Valley Authority Act

 

June 5, 1933

Joint Resolution Voiding the Gold Clause in Government Obligations {excerpt}

 

June 6, 1933

Emergency Railroad Act {excerpt}

 

June 6, 1933

Roosevelt’s Statement on Cuts in Veterans’ Benefits

 

June 16, 1933

National Industrial Recovery Act

 

June 16, 1933

Roosevelt’s Executive Order on the N.R.A.

 

June 16, 1933

Roosevelt’s Executive Order on Public Works Administration

 

June 16, 1933

Emergency Railroad Transportation Act {excerpt}

 

July 8, 1933

Roosevelt’s Greeting to the C.C.C.

 

July 11, 1933

Roosevelt’s Executive Order Appointing the Executive Council

 

July 17, 1933

Cotton Textile Code {excerpt}

 

July 27, 1933

Roosevelt’s Reemployment Agreement

 

August 5, 1933

Roosevelt’s Statement on the First National Labor Board

 

August 19, 1933

Roosevelt’s Executive Order on the Public Works

 

October 10, 1933

Anti-War Treaty of Non-Aggression and Conciliation {excerpt}

 

November 16, 1933

Communications between Roosevelt & Litvinov: Recognizing the Soviet Union

 

December 6, 1933

United States v. One Book Called “Ulysses” {excerpt}

1934

January 3, 1934

Roosevelt’s First Annual Message to Congress {excerpt}

 

January 8, 1934

Home Bldg. & Loan Ass’n v. Blaisdell

 

March 2, 1934

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress Regarding Foreign Trade

 

March 2, 1934

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on Philippine Islands Independence

 

March 5, 1934

Nebbia v. People of the State of New York

 

March 24, 1934

Philippine Independence Act {excerpt}

 

March 27, 1934

Roosevelt’s Veto of the Appropriations Bill

 

April 13, 1934

The Johnson Act

 

April, 28, 1934

Roosevelt’s Statement on the Wheeler-Howard Bill

 

May 22, 1934

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on Silver Policy

 

May 29, 1934

The Abrogation of the Platt Amendment {excerpt}

 

June 18, 1934

The Indian Reorganization Act (Wheeler-Howard Act)

 

June 28, 1934

Taylor Grazing Act {excerpt}

 

June 29, 1934

Roosevelt’s Executive Order for the First National Labor Relations Board {excerpt}

 

September 27, 1934

Roosevelt’s Executive Order on N.R.A.

 

September 27, 1934

Roosevelt’s Message on Current Problems

 

October 31, 1934

Roosevelt’s Executive Order Consolidating Several Emergency Agencies

 

November 26, 1934

Roosevelt’s Executive Order on Conversation of Public Lands

1935

January 4, 1935

Roosevelt’s Second Annual Message to Congress

 

January 17, 1935

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on Social Security

 

January 24, 1935

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on Our National Resources

 

February 18, 1935

U.S. v. Bankers’ Trust Co. (Norman v. the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company)

 

February 18, 1935

Perry v. United States

 

February 20, 1935

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on N.R.A.

 

March 16, 1935

Roosevelt’s Letter about the T.V.A.

 

March 22, 1935

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on Pure Foods and Drugs

 

May 6, 1935

Roosevelt’s Executive Order on the W.P.A.

 

May 6, 1935

Railroad Retirement Board v. Alton R. Co.

 

May 22, 1935

Roosevelt’s Veto of the Bonus Bill

 

May 27, 1935

Humphrey’s Ex’r v. United States

 

May 27, 1935

A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States

 

June 4, 1935

Roosevelt’s Statement on the Supreme Court Decision on N.R.A.

 

June 15, 1935

Roosevelt’s Executive Order Reorganizing the N.R.A. {excerpt}

 

June 15, 1935

Roosevelt’s Executive Order Extending the N.R.A.

 

June 26, 1935

Roosevelt’s Executive Order Establishing the National Youth Administration

 

July 3, 1935

Roosevelt’s Statement Fixing Jurisdiction of P.W.A. & W.P.A.

 

July 5, 1935

National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)

 

August 14, 1935

The Social Security Act

 

August 24, 1935

Roosevelt’s Letter on the N.R.A.

 

August 31, 1935

Roosevelt’s Statement on Neutrality

 

September 5, 1935

Roosevelt’s Veto of the Taylor Grazing Act

 

September 25, 1935

Roosevelt’s Proclamation on Arms under the Neutrality Legislation

 

October 25, 1935

Roosevelt’s Statement on American Agriculture

 

November 15, 1935

Canadian Reciprocal Trade Agreement {excerpt}

 

December 21, 1935

Roosevelt’s Executive Order Terminating the N.R.A.

1936

January 3, 1936

Roosevelt’s Third Annual Message to Congress

 

January 6, 1936

United States v. Butler

 

February 10, 1936

Grosjean v. American Press Co.

 

February 17, 1936

Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority

 

March 1, 1936

Roosevelt’s Statement on Soil Conservation & Domestic Allotment Act

 

March 18, 1936

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on Unemployment Relief

 

May 18, 1936

Carter v. Carter Coal Co.

 

June 12, 1936

Republican Party Platform

 

June 27, 1936

Democratic Party Platform

 

June 27, 1936

Roosevelt’s Speech on His Renomination

 

August 27, 1936

Summary of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee’s Preliminary Report & Conclusions

 

October 31, 1936

Roosevelt’s Address “We Have Only Just Begun to Fight”

 

November 25, 1936

Anti-Comintern Pact: German-Japanese Agreement & Supplementary Protocol

 

December 21, 1936

United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation

1937

January 4, 1937

De Jonge v. State of Oregon

 

January 6, 1937

Roosevelt’s Fourth Annual Message to Congress

 

January 20, 1937

Roosevelt’s Second Inaugural Address

 

February 10, 1937

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on the Great Plains Area

 

February 26, 1937

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on Panama Canal

 

March 9, 1937

Roosevelt’s Fireside Chat

 

March 29, 1937

West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish

 

April 5, 1937

Roosevelt’s Message of Congress on the C.C.C.

 

April 12, 1937

Associated Press v. N.L.R.B.

 

April 12, 1937

N.L.R.B. v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.

 

April 26, 1937

Herndon v. Lowry

 

May 1, 1937

The Neutrality Act of 1937 {excerpt}

 

May 1, 1937

Roosevelt’s Proclamation Forbidding Arms Exports to Spain

 

May 24, 1937

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on Minimum Wages & Hours

 

May 24, 1937

Helvering v. Davis

 

May 24, 1937

Chas. C. Steward Mach. Co. v. Davis

 

June 29, 1937

Roosevelt’s Letter to Institute of Public Affairs

 

1937

Adverse Report from the Committee on the Judiciary {excerpt}

 

1937

Proposed Bill: Reform of the Federal Judiciary {excerpt}

 

August 24, 1937

Judiciary Reform Act of 1937 {excerpt}

 

September 1,1937

The Wagner Housing Act {excerpt}

 

September 20, 1937

Statement on the P.W.A.

 

October 5, 1937

Roosevelt’s Address in Chicago

 

November 6, 1937

Protocol Concluded by Italy, Germany, and Japan {excerpt}

 

November 14, 1937

Roosevelt’s Radio Address on Unemployment Census

 

December 13, 1937

Roosevelt’s Memorandum on Japan’s Bombing of the S.S. Panay

 

December 28, 1937

Roosevelt’s Letter to the House Chairman of the Appropriations Committee

1938

January 3, 1938

Roosevelt’s Fifth Annual Message to Congress

 

January 6, 1938

Roosevelt’s Letter to the House Speaker on War Referendum

 

January 28, 1938

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on Defense Appropriations

 

January 31, 1938

Connecticut General Life Ins. Co. v. Johnson

 

April 13, 1938

Roosevelt’s Letter on the Tax Bill

 

April 14, 1938

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on Stimulating Recovery

 

April 25, 1938

United States v. Carolene Products

 

May 23, 1938

Helvering v. Gerhardt

 

June 14, 1938

Roosevelt’s Letter on Defense

 

July 25, 1938

Report to the President on the Economic Conditions of the South {excerpt}

 

September 26, 1938

Roosevelt’s Message on the Threat of War (to Czechoslovakia, Germany, Great Britain & France)

 

September 27, 1938

Roosevelt’s Letter to Hitler Seeking Peace

 

September 27, 1938

Hitler’s Reply to Roosevelt

 

October 19, 1938

Roosevelt’s Letter on the Palestine Situation

 

December 31, 1938

United States Note to Japan Regarding Violations of American Rights in China {excerpt}

1939

January 4, 1939

Roosevelt’s Sixth Annual Message to Congress

 

January 5, 1939

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on the W.P.A.

 

January 23, 1939

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on the National Health Program

 

March 17, 1939

Statement on the German Partition of Czechoslovakia

 

March 27, 1939

Graves v. People of State of New York

 

April 14, 1939

Roosevelt’s Message to Hitler & Mussolini

 

April 14, 1939

Roosevelt’s Address to the Pan America Union

 

April 30, 1939

Roosevelt’s Address on the Opening of the New York World’s Fair

 

June 12, 1939

Roosevelt’s Graduation Address at West Point

 

July 14, 1939

Hull’s Message to Congress on Neutrality

 

August 2, 1939

The Hatch Act

 

August 2, 1939

Roosevelt’s Message to Congress on the Hatch Act

 

August 24, 1939

Roosevelt’s Message to the King of Italy