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Herbert Hoover: “No governmental agency should engage in the buying and selling and price fixing of products, for such courses can lead…”

On the recordApril 15, 1929
No governmental agency should engage in the buying and selling and price fixing of products, for such courses can lead only to bureaucracy and domination.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Message to the Special Session of the Congress on Farm Relief, Tariff, antedating Emergency Legislation.

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