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Memory is short , but yours is not too short to recollect those great meetings of the representatives of the farmers , regionally and in Washington , in the spring and summer of 1933 , when they agreed overwhelmingly that unfairly low prices for farm crops could never be raised to , and maintained at , a reasonable level until and unless the Government of the United States acted to help them to reduce the tremendous carryovers and surpluses which threatened us and the whole world . To fully appreciate the progress we are making , let 's go back for a moment to the fall of 1933 , when the Work Program for women started . Today 's financial services industry barely resembles that of 1933 , when the Glass-Steagall Act was enacted , or even that of 1970 , when Congress amended the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 . One notable example of how Roosevelt dealt with victims of the Great Depression occurred in the summer of 1933 , when some of the " Bonus Army " ( see Twenty-third Visit ) returned to Washington . More than 9,000 banks closed between the stock market crash of October 1929 and March of 1933 , when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office . Maybe we need to get back the spirit of 1933 , when FDR told us we had nothing to fear but fear - - - maybe we should strive to revive the spirit of 1964-65 . The most striking fact about him was that his father had been on the Long March of 1933 , when the Communist force led by Mao Tse-tung escaped the trap set by the Kuomintang army led by Chiang Kai-shek .