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FDR: When the cost of living spirals upward, everybody becomes poorer.

On the recordSeptember 6, 1942
When the cost of living spirals upward, everybody becomes poorer.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Message to Congress on Stabilizing the Economy

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