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Herbert Hoover: “In all previous depressions, the volume of public works has diminished because the State and municipal governments…”

On the recordJune 29, 1930
In all previous depressions, the volume of public works has diminished because the State and municipal governments, feeling the effects of such depression in taxes, in problems of finance, and in the general psychology of retrenchment, have themselves followed the general trend.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Address to the Governors' Conference.

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