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‘I gave up Thanksgiving, I cancelled’
"I gave up Thanksgiving. I canceled," Stewart, 82, said. "Nine guests canceled because somebody got sick. So...I called up my chef friend and I said, 'We're not doing Thanksgiving."
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In August 1939, amid the Great Depression, Fred Lazarus Jr., head of Federated Department Stores (which would later become Macy's), lobbied President Franklin D. Roosevelt to move Thanksgiving a week earlier, to the second to last Thursday of November instead of the last Thursday of November, to make the Christmas shopping season last longer and help boost retail sales.
Update: 11/22/23, 11 a.m. Martha Stewart took to Instagram to clarify that she has not canceled Thanksgiving all together. “It’s not true that I gave up Thanksgiving! What I cancelled [sic ...
Thanksgiving weekend offered a strong start, especially as Black Friday sales continued to grow in popularity. For the 2nd consecutive year, Black Friday was the highest day for retail traffic during the holiday season, followed by Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday.
The National Day of Mourning is an annual demonstration, held on the fourth Thursday in November, that aims to educate the public about Native Americans in the United States, notably the Wampanoag and other tribes of the Eastern United States; dispel myths surrounding the Thanksgiving story in the United States; and raise awareness toward historical and ongoing struggles facing Native American ...
Martha Stewart's scaled-back Thanksgiving is looking a lot like a full-fledged event as she has admitted to baking 30 pies and a 20-pound turkey after previously saying she "canceled" the holiday.