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On the recordFebruary 15, 1932
The public can understand that if one local merchant finds it difficult to borrow from the banks his normal credit to maintain a stock of goods, he necessarily shortens down on his stocks and this reflects right back to the manufacturer and thus into unemployment.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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