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Herbert Hoover: “It is the intention of the law that these contracts should be used in such fashion as to upbuild and strengthen the…”

On the recordMay 30, 1929
It is the intention of the law that these contracts should be used in such fashion as to upbuild and strengthen the merchant marine both for the present and the future.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Letter to Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont on the Establishment of an Interdepartmental Committee To Study Marine Mail...

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