FDR: “Because we live in an era of acceleration, we can no longer trust to…”

On the recordDecember 4, 1938

Because we live in an era of acceleration, we can no longer trust to the evolution of future decades to meet these new problems.

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Democratic · New York

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Address at University of North Carolina

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