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A President's Message was Read

A President's Message was Read/tiles/collection/1/13248.xml
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Date

1937-11-15

Dimensions

7 × 9 1/2 in. (17.8 × 24.1 cm)

Accession Number

2008.150.001

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

Alney Chaffee, veteran Reading Clerk of the House, read President Franklin Roosevelt's message to Congress during a special session in November 1937. Following a series of political setbacks earlier in the year, this message was a renewed call for fair labor legislation. Ultimately, Labor Committee Chair Mary Norton pushed the legislation through Congress, and brought about the final major piece of New Deal legislation.

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