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On the recordMarch 6, 1930
The amount of unemployment is, in proportion to the number of workers, considerably less than one-half (probably only one-third) of that which resulted from the crashes of 1907–08, and 1920–22 at this period of the situation.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Statement on Unemployment and Business Conditions.

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