The President's News Conference
08/11/1930
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Any study of many of these public works provisions will indicate plainly their pork-barrel characteristics.
It was unfortunate also that the provision for agricultural relief through the Reconstruction Corporation was omitted.
Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 36; U.S. Code, title 16, sec. 473), and on th...
I am glad to see the adoption by both the Senate and the House of the principle of generous relief to unemployment.