07/31/1942
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"That tradition, I think, has been rather faithfully carried out right down to the present day."
"The Government recognizes as a matter of policy its obligation to those people in the United States whose standards of living are so low that something has to be done about it."
"Government cannot say, 'We are licked.'"
"We have four and three-quarter million people on relief."