Some merchants worried that a late Thanksgiving would cut down on Christmas sales and asked President Franklin D. Roosevelt to move the holiday up by a week – which he did, creating unanticipated havoc.

一些商人担心晚感恩节会减少圣诞节的销售，并要求富兰克林·D·罗斯福总统将假期提前一周——他照做了，造成了意想不到的破坏。