The President's News Conference
02/19/1931
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The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhel...
I am glad to see the adoption by the Senate and House of the principle of generous relief to unemployment.
Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard...
We cannot restore employment in the United States by these methods.