Thanksgiving moved up a week in 1939, outrage followed

In August 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt triggered the wrath of many by moving it to the third Thursday of the month. He said it was better for business because it would allow more shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. (I guess he had no idea that in the world to come, Christmas shopping would begin at Halloween!) The Shubert Citizen newspaper reported the news and added an a...

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