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Herbert Hoover: “This time the Nation has realized that as a sound economic policy, the prudent expedition of construction could be to an…”

On the recordJune 29, 1930
This time the Nation has realized that as a sound economic policy, the prudent expedition of construction could be to an important degree used as a balance wheel to maintain security of employment, to maintain consumption of goods, to thus contribute to economic stability and above all to relieve hardship.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Address to the Governors' Conference.

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