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Warren Harding: “We have become convinced that somehow our system of distribution has grown too cumbersome, too costly, too complex, too…”

On the recordJune 27, 1923
We have become convinced that somehow our system of distribution has grown too cumbersome, too costly, too complex, too indirect, too unrelated to the interests of real producers and legitimate consumers.
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Warren Harding
Republican · Ohio

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Address in Idaho Falls, Idaho

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