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　　若沒有薩拉·J·黑爾??一位雜志編輯的努力，最終就不會(huì)有我們現(xiàn)在所謂的感恩節(jié)。在她主編的"波士頓婦女雜志"及稍后的"Godey's 女士手冊(cè)"中，她撰寫了大量的社論，支持將感恩節(jié)定為全國性節(jié)日。40年中，她堅(jiān)持不懈地發(fā)表評(píng)論，不斷致信州長乃至總統(tǒng)，最后，理想終于變?yōu)楝F(xiàn)實(shí)：1863年，林肯總統(tǒng)發(fā)表聲明，將11月的最后一個(gè)星期四定為感恩節(jié)??一個(gè)全國性的節(jié)日。

　　Thanksgiving was proclaimed by every president after Lincoln. The date was changed a couple of times, most recently by Franklin Roosevelt, who set it up one week to the next-to-last Thursday in order to create a longer Christmas shopping season. Public uproar against this decision caused the president to move Thanksgiving back to its original date two years later. And in 1941, Thanksgiving was finally sanctioned by Congress as a legal holiday, as the fourth Thursday in November.