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Thanksgiving and Independence Day were considered too sacrosanct to tamper with, but the legislation still provoked passion. "First you changed the hours of the day and now you change the days of the year," wrote a Missourian to Florida's Senator George M. Smathers. "If you don't watch out, the Lord will strike his retribution." Warned a plant manager: "Threeday weekends just give people another day to drink. Now our workers are going to be three times as hung over."