whom President Franklin D. Roosevelt put in charge of work relief, settled the matter, saying, "Hell, they've got to eat just like other people!" Thus was born the Public Works of Art Project ...

Installation of a four-paneled mural of the “Four Freedoms,” inspired by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech ... had the foresight to commission paintings, first of all, to hang in ...

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt said he owed his life to his hobbies—"especially stamp collecting." "Delivering Hope: FDR & Stamps of the Great Depression ... Whistler's famous painting of his ...

The stock market’s precipitous slide began in the autumn of 1929, wiping out more than half its value and ushering in the Great Depression ... of how President Franklin D. Roosevelt pulled ...

People gather on the lawn to mark the day Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died here on ... with Americans struggling in the Great Depression. "This was a very poor part of the ...

Campaign In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s place in the White House. Roosevelt’s ...