Letter: Remember when there were two Thanksgivings?

With Thanksgiving falling so late in November this year, it brings back to mind President Franklin Roosevelt’s ill-fated Depression-era executive order to advance the holiday one week earlier in the month. Roosevelt felt like this would give people more time to shop between Thanksgiving and Christmas and as a result spark an economic boost to a nation deep in the Depression. About half of the country went along with the idea, and about half stuck to the traditional date. For others, it gav