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Herbert Hoover: The only provision we are making is that it will produce employment during the next 6 months, and that is the sole…

On the recordDecember 4, 1930
The only provision we are making is that it will produce employment during the next 6 months, and that is the sole object of relief legislation--not to further schemes that look to a general upbuilding of the Nation beyond our taxing policy.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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