英语词汇bank holiday的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bank holiday. Bank holiday was one of the first of many words and phrases coined during the New Deal in America’s Great De- pression. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used it on March 6, 1933, two days after his inauguration. Providing for the reo- pening of sound banks in a period when most banks had failed and “runs” had abounded, F.D.R. declared a four-day bank holi- day while Congress rushed to pass the Emergency Banking Act. A bank holiday is the name for legal holidays in the U.K.

词汇	bank holiday
词源	bank holiday. Bank holiday was one of the first of many words and phrases coined during the New Deal in America’s Great De- pression. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used it on March 6, 1933, two days after his inauguration. Providing for the reo- pening of sound banks in a period when most banks had failed and “runs” had abounded, F.D.R. declared a four-day bank holi- day while Congress rushed to pass the Emergency Banking Act. A bank holiday is the name for legal holidays in the U.K.
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