And its ideals are clear: that by cooperation and not by compulsion it should seek to assist in maintaining and giving the impulse of progress to commerce and industry in a nation whose successful economic life underlies advancement in every other field.
Herbert Hoover: “And its ideals are clear: that by cooperation and not by compulsion it should seek to assist in maintaining and giving…”
On the recordJune 9, 1929
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Remarks Upon Laying the Cornerstone of the New Department of Commerce Building.
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