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On the recordDecember 17, 1931
Beyond this, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation which I have proposed to the Congress, aside from its purposes to aid agricultural credit associations and the export of agricultural commodities and other stiffening of the credit situation, will under those recommendations be able to give emergency aid in this situation also if it should be necessary.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Statement on Financial Assistance to Railroads.

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