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Herbert Hoover: “The 1926 expenditures on Army, Navy, public works, and Post Office deficit is $790 million.”

On the recordJuly 18, 1929
The 1926 expenditures on Army, Navy, public works, and Post Office deficit is $790 million.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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