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U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted the Emergency Banking Act to the United States Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
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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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United States Congress
Bicameral legislature of the United States
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New Deal
1930s programs of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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