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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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