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Herbert Hoover: “We have hitherto regarded great business depressions with their inevitable train of unemployment and hardships as an…”

On the recordJune 29, 1930
We have hitherto regarded great business depressions with their inevitable train of unemployment and hardships as an inevitable fever which must run it course, and in former times if public works were undertaken in alleviation of unemployment it has been in the sense of semi-charity.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Address to the Governors' Conference.

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