In theory, rainwater is like distilled-water*, but it gets its compositions largely by dissolving particulate materials in the atmosphere especially the troposphere - when droplets of water nucleate on atmospheric particulates, and secondarily by dissolving gasses from the atmosphere.
Updated May 29, 2016. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, led the country both during the Great Depression and World War II. He was charismatic and innovative at a time when the United States needed exactly that kind of leadership.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was governor of New York, when the Wall Street Crash in October 1929, created the worst depression in American history. Roosevelt made strenuous attempts to help those without work. He set up the New York State Emergency Relief Commission and appointed the respected Harry Hopkins to run the agency.oosevelt's first act as president was to deal with the country's banking crisis. Since the beginning of the depression, a fifth of all banks had been forced to close. As a consequence, around 15% of people's life-savings had been lost.