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On the recordJuly 14, 1929
In selecting this Board I have sought for suggestions from the many scores of farmers' cooperatives and other organizations and yours were the names most universally commended.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Remarks at the First Meeting of the Federal Farm Board.

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