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FDR: “Our legislation was remedial, and as such, it would serve no purpose to make a doctrinaire effort to distinguish between…”

On the recordSeptember 5, 1935
Our legislation was remedial, and as such, it would serve no purpose to make a doctrinaire effort to distinguish between that which was addressed to recovery and that which was addressed to reform.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Reply to Letter from Roy W. Howard

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