I read an interesting story this morning. It seems that during the FDR administration, that first golden age of executive overreach, the President decided to move Thanksgiving back a week to lengthen the Christmas shopping season.
Some states refused to comply, and for a while people talked about Democrat and Republican Thanksgivings. Wags referred to the holiday as “Franksgiving”.
Which one are we celebrating today?Originally Posted by LDAHL
Despite the best efforts of the politics-are-personal minority, I view it as a nonpartisan holiday that prizes gratitude over grievance. And of course football.
Sorry, I meant are we on the earlier one or the later one?
Tradition won in the end. There’s a cute joke about it in “Holiday Inn”, where the turkey runs back and forth between two dates on the calendar before settling on the later one.
That's funny, I do like that movie and watch it every year and missed it!
It’s one of the tiny minority of Christmas movies I can tolerate, but I never got that joke until I read the article.
I’ve never seen the whole movie for Holiday Inn. Will have to look it up this season.
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