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On the recordSeptember 24, 1931
It is important that there should be a great effort on the part of such organizations to discourage every form of increased Federal expenditure and to themselves withhold projects, even though meritorious, until sometime when the country is in better condition.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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