Press Conference
05/22/1941
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Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance.
The emergency purpose of the N.R.A. was to put men to work.
The primary responsibility for community needs rests upon the community itself.
It is the duty of the State to supplement, with the resources of the State, the additional needs up to the limit of the power of the State.