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FDR: Industrialists kill the goose which lays the golden egg when they cut wages and thereby reduce purchasing power.

On the recordJanuary 24, 1938
Industrialists kill the goose which lays the golden egg when they cut wages and thereby reduce purchasing power.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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