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Herbert Hoover: We must put some steel beams in the foundations of our credit structure.

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We must put some steel beams in the foundations of our credit structure.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Hoover uses the metaphor of steel beams to suggest strengthening the foundations of the credit system.

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