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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Aug 20, 1931

Any local physician employed on a fee basis or a part-time basis, where, in the opinion of the commission, the establishment of registers is impracticable.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Aug 9, 1931

When it is realized that the smaller industries employ more than half of the nation's industrial labor the significance of your conference is clear.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Aug 6, 1931

We have now underway a reexamination to determine the actual number to be employed through the steadily increasing volume of Federal public works.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jan 9, 1931

I regret that the Government should be absorbed upon such questions as the action of the Power Commission in employment or nonemployment of two subordinate officials at a time when the condition of the country requires every constructive energy.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Dec 29, 1930

These negotiations have been in progress for some weeks, and were undertaken at my suggestion in the hope of effecting the consolidation policies declared by Congress in 1920 and especially at this time as a contribution to the recovery of business by enlarging opportunity for employment and by increasing the financial stability of all the railways, and particularly some of their weaker roads.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Dec 8, 1930

No matter how devised, an increase in taxes in the end falls upon the workers and farmers, or alternatively deprives industry of that much ability to give employment and defeats the very purpose of these schemes.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Dec 4, 1930

The only provision we are making is that it will produce employment during the next 6 months, and that is the sole object of relief legislation--not to further schemes that look to a general upbuilding of the Nation beyond our taxing policy.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 19, 1929

Mr. Ralph Ely Stedman may be reinstated to an appropriate position in the classified service without regard to the length of his separation from the service.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 16, 1929

The fact that the manufacture of these poppies gives employment to disabled ex-service men, in the hospitals and elsewhere, adds to the worthiness of the cause.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Oct 21, 1926

provided the attention required by such employment does not, in the judgment of the General Manager, interfere with the regular and efficient discharge of the duties of their positions under the railroad

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Jun 6, 1924

The conditions under which employment is undertaken in the Postal Service and those under which it is undertaken in business are not altogether alike.

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Robert Taft
@roberttaft· Republican · OH· Nov 1, 1909

We have not opened all the avenues to livelihood which they are quite as well able to fill, and in certain respects better able to fill, than we are.

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Abraham Lincoln
@abrahamlincoln· Republican · IL· Jul 16, 1862

I am ready to say now, I think it is proper for our military commanders to employ as laborers as many persons of African descent as can be used to advantage.

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