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The fireside chats were a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944.Roosevelt spoke with familiarity to millions of Americans about recovery from the Great Depression, the promulgation of the Emergency Banking Act in response to the banking crisis, the 1936 recession, New Deal initiatives, and the course of ...
[5]: 78–79 It was the first of 30 evening radio addresses that came to be called the Fireside Chats. [7] The result, according to economic historian William L. Silber, was a "remarkable turnaround in the public's confidence … The contemporary press confirms that the public recognized the implicit guarantee and, as a result, believed that ...
The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and inform or reflect life in the United States." [1] The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, [2] which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are ...
He visited the library often during the war to sort and classify his records and memorabilia; and from his study in the library he delivered several of his famous War-era radio speeches or "fireside chats". President Roosevelt paid his last visit to Hyde Park in March 1945 and died on April 12 at Warm Springs, Georgia, at age sixty-three.
12 October – Fireside chat: On Legislation to be Recommended to the Extraordinary Session of the Congress. 14 November – Fireside chat: On the Unemployment Census. 12 December – American actress Mae West makes a risqué guest appearance on The Chase and Sanborn Hour that eventually results in her being banned from radio.
28 July: Fireside chat: On Progress of War and Plans for Peace. 8 September: Fireside chat: Opening Third War Loan Drive. 12 October: Edward Noble's American Broadcasting System offer to purchase the Blue Network and its O&Os from NBC gets approval from the FCC; Noble's lone station prior to the purchase, WMCA in New York, is sold off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt first used what would become known as fireside chats in 1929 as Governor of New York. [5] His third gubernatorial address—April 3, 1929, on WGY radio—is cited by Roosevelt biographer Frank Freidel as being the first fireside chat. [6] As president he continued the tradition, which he called his fireside chats. The ...
Harry C. Butcher was born in Springville, Iowa on November 1, 1901. Following his graduation from Iowa State College, in 1929 Butcher began a career in radio broadcasting. [1] He opened the Washington, D.C. office of CBS and served as its director until 1932. Beginning in 1932, he was the manager, and later vice-president, of the CBS Radio ...