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Nov 2024
38m 14s

Thanksgiving vs. Franksgiving

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This episode covers President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s decision to move the date of Thanksgiving with the hope of helping businesses that were trying to recover from the Great Depression – and the controversy that caused. 
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