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Herbert Hoover: “The situation is a serious one and demands that we all make the most earnest efforts to eliminate or postpone all such…”

On the recordJuly 23, 1931
The situation is a serious one and demands that we all make the most earnest efforts to eliminate or postpone all such activities as may be so treated without serious detriment to the public welfare.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Memorandum to Federal Departments and Agencies on Expenditures for Fiscal Year 1932

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