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FDR: “Generically such problems arise out of the concentration of economic control to the detriment of the body…”

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Generically such problems arise out of the concentration of economic control to the detriment of the body politic--control of other people's money, other people's labor, other people's lives.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt discusses the dangers of concentrated economic control and its negative impact on society.

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