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On the recordOctober 9, 1962
For the first time since 1938 the protection of the minimum wage law was extended to millions of workers who are not now covered.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Baltimore at the Fifth Regiment Armory

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