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Franklin D. Roosevelt: “It is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress.”

On the recordMarch 12, 1933
It is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Editor's note · Context

Encouraging public confidence in the banking system.

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