The President's News Conference
04/23/1931
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These expenditures cannot be recovered; they must be met by the taxpayer now or in the future.
The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhel...
It was unfortunate also that the provision for agricultural relief through the Reconstruction Corporation was omitted.
The armaments of the world have grown up in general mutual relation to each other.