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On the recordFebruary 27, 1931
This public necessity has been held aside for 18 months and time of Congress given to 1 percent of the power and the interests of 1 percent of the people of the United States which is the proportion of the Muscle Shoals problem to the whole.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Statement on Muscle Shoals Legislation.

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