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FDR: “Whenever you start to get a wages and hours bill, the Congressman for that particular district gets a piteous plea, 'For…”

On the recordApril 7, 1938
Whenever you start to get a wages and hours bill, the Congressman for that particular district gets a piteous plea, 'For God's sake don't do anything or you won't go back to Congress.'
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Press Conference with Editors and Publishers of Trade Papers in Washington

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