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FDR: No reasonable person wants to abandon our present gains—we must continue to protect children, to enforce minimum wages…

On the recordApril 27, 1935
No reasonable person wants to abandon our present gains—we must continue to protect children, to enforce minimum wages, to prevent excessive hours.
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Democratic · New York

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