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FDR: “This agreement, of course, was for the purpose of allowing demand and supply to govern the price of silver.”

On the recordDecember 20, 1933
This agreement, of course, was for the purpose of allowing demand and supply to govern the price of silver.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Proclamation and Statement Ratifying the London Agreement on Silver

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