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Harry Truman: They won't do anything because their 'big business bosses' won't let them.

On the recordOctober 22, 1948
They won't do anything because their 'big business bosses' won't let them.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address in Johnstown, Pennsylvania

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