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On the recordJune 24, 1929
The expenditures for the present fiscal year are estimated to be $3,926 million, and in addition to this expenditure at that rate, as most of the expenditure during the present fiscal year is more or less continuing, would bring the total up to a very considerable sum.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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