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FDR: This Act, defining rights, the enforcement of which is recognized by the Congress to be necessary as an act of both…

On the recordJuly 4, 1935
This Act, defining rights, the enforcement of which is recognized by the Congress to be necessary as an act of both common justice and economic advance, must not be misinterpreted.
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Democratic · New York

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