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Herbert Hoover: “Of course, we are always striving to get below the appropriations where we can do it without injuring the major purpose…”

On the recordApril 23, 1931
Of course, we are always striving to get below the appropriations where we can do it without injuring the major purpose of the appropriations themselves.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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