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FDR: Our Nation so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population should be able to…

On the recordMay 23, 1937
Our Nation so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied working men and women a fair day's pay for a fair day's work.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Message to Congress on Establishing Minimum Wages and Maximum Hours

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