Statement on Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
03/25/1931
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I am glad to see the adoption by both the Senate and the House of the principle of generous relief to unemployment.
It is folly for the world to go on breaking its back over military expenditure, and the United States is willing to take...
I earnestly hope that this may be done.
We cannot restore employment in the United States by these methods.