The test of the value of such relief is the ability to pay wages between now and the end of the fiscal year, and I therefore urge that this estimate be given early consideration.
Herbert Hoover: “The test of the value of such relief is the ability to pay wages between now and the end of the fiscal year, and I…”
On the recordDecember 3, 1930
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Letter to the Speaker of the House Transmitting a Supplemental Estimate of Appropriation for Emergency Construction Funds.
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