Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

It is necessary and proper, because of the emergency, that all merchandise (except grain) imported during the calendar year 1931 and entered for warehousing...be permitted to remain in warehouse for a further period.

Context

Proclamation 2069—Merchandise in Bonded Warehouse, Bonded Carpet Wool and Camel Hair, and Drawback Exportations

12/29/1933

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