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Herbert Hoover: All of this tends to stifle business, especially the smaller units, and finally expresses itself in further depression…

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All of this tends to stifle business, especially the smaller units, and finally expresses itself in further depression of prices and values, in restriction on new enterprise, and in increased unemployment.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Hoover highlights the negative impact of stifling business on the economy, particularly for smaller enterprises.

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