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Financial crisis of 1933
The 50th anniversary of the financial crisis of 1933 that caused President Roosevelt to demand that all of the banks across the United States close their doors.
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Fri 4 Mar 198321:00
BBC Radio 4
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Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal
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Remembering FDR
The 50th anniversary of the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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