03/24/1930
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"I cannot make a public statement in the matter."
"I do not know of any nation in the world which manages to maintain through its national life the gold value of its currency."
"When there is a question pending over the world's economic life, the actual realization of it is much less severe on us than is the constant possibility of it."
"The fact that the pound is taken off its fixed value of $4.86 is not the abandonment of the gold standard even for the pound."