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Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
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Worldwide economic depression (1929–1939)
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President of the United States from 1933 to 1945
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Great Depression-era U.S. legislation to stabilize the banking system
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New Deal
1930s programs of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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