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On the recordSeptember 4, 1960
The man who opposes a decent increase in the minimum wage is not likely to be more generous toward a badly underpaid schoolteacher.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Cadillac Square, Detroit, MI

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