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Rescheduling Thanksgiving: A Turkey of an Idea Gets Plucked
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What Was He Thinking?
As the Great Depression lingers on, President Franklin Roosevelt and his advisors have a shiny new concept for boosting the lackluster U.S. economy: move Thanksgiving from late November to seven days earlier in the month.
That way, they reason, Christmas shoppers will have one more week to buy presents, thereby invigorating moribund retail sales. Instead, an irate populace immediately places Roosevelt’s bird-brained concept on the chopping block. Listen, laugh and learn all about it in this episode.
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