Address to the Gridiron Club
12/11/1931
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Any study of many of these public works provisions will indicate plainly their pork-barrel characteristics.
Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard...
These policies and measures will hold our hard-won American system of ordered liberty and government.
This order shall be effective from July 1, 1932.