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FDR: And when we have found that way to protect the farmers' prices from the effects of alternating crop surpluses and crop…

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And when we have found that way to protect the farmers' prices from the effects of alternating crop surpluses and crop scarcities, we shall also have found the way to protect the nation's food supply from the effects of the same fluctuation.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt connects the protection of farmers' prices with the overall stability of the nation's food supply.

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