Excerpts from the Press Conference
02/16/1942
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The purpose of this moratorium period is to permit the States to make necessary readjustments in their laws with respect...
We all know that the reduction of Government-created barriers to trade will not solve all our trade problems.
It is ordered that the following changes be, and they are hereby, made in the customs field organization.
All sections of our population—labor, farmers, businessmen have shared and will share in the benefits which increased tr...