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Herbert Hoover: “And bank failures which amounted to nearly 100 a week when the Corporation began are now down to about the casualties of…”

On the recordJune 4, 1932
And bank failures which amounted to nearly 100 a week when the Corporation began are now down to about the casualties of normal times.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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White House Statement on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

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