Excerpts from the Press Conference
10/31/1938
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I have advocated unemployment insurance as an essential part of our program to build a more ample and secure life.
I have to point out in a memorandum that in its essentials this bill is really nothing more than a resolution that it is still the policy of...
The loss of a job brings discouragement and privation to the individual worker and his family.
There is hereby established the Office of Special Adviser to the President on Foreign Trade.