03/07/1930
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"I am glad you asked the question because it is only fair to Secretary Adams that such rumors should be cleared up."
"I welcome it and will go to the American people on the question of whether the departments have the right to dictate to the American people what they shall expend."
"I think we need a reunderstanding of what background consists of--it is the desire on my part to help the correspondents with the facts about various things on which I do not desire to be quoted."
"We have heard nothing of it."