Herbert Hoover actually said...

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.

Context

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

05/30/1929

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