Herbert Hoover actually said...

The Paymaster of the Panama Canal, under the direction of the Auditor of the Panama Canal, is authorized to advance small sums of cash to bonded employees of the Panama Canal on the Isthmus of Panama, for the purpose of making petty cash disbursements.

06/23/1930

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