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Herbert Hoover: “I have repeatedly urged a proper extension of public employment agencies, but this bill, unfortunately, abolishes the…”

On the recordMarch 7, 1931
I have repeatedly urged a proper extension of public employment agencies, but this bill, unfortunately, abolishes the whole of the present well-developed Federal Employment Service, and proposes after certain requirements are complied with, to set up an entirely new plan by subsidies to the States from the Federal Treasury.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Statement on the Disapproval of a Bill To Provide for the Establishment of a National Employment System

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