
The housewife who goes to buy food today must spend $10 to buy what $7 bought a year and a half ago.
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The housewife who goes to buy food today must spend $10 to buy what $7 bought a year and a half ago.

We should all ponder the following questions: What would it avail the farmer, in the long run, if farm prices should go substantially higher only to be followed by a disaster such as occurred after the first World War?

We cannot allow the strength of this Nation to be wasted and our people's confidence in our free institutions to be shaken by an economic catastrophe.

Our people know that our influence in the world gives us an opportunity--unmatched in history--to conduct ourselves in such a manner that men and women of all the world can move out of the shadows of fear and war and into the light of…

Emergency aid is no substitute for a long-range recovery program, but it is a vital prerequisite to such a program.

The American people are becoming more and more deeply aware of their world position.

The Budget Director has never said anything about resigning and has never discussed it, and he is not going to resign; and that's positive and final.

I will make that announcement at a later date.

No decision has been arrived at as yet.

I am not ready to answer it at the present time.

Pursuant to requests by the Board, all Federal departments and agencies shall furnish the Board such information, reports, statistics and other data or documents in their possession or under their control or obtainable by them.

No, there is not. I do not have that under consideration at all.

I didn't think they would need to borrow any money.

No I am not. Whenever we are ready I will make that announcement.

I would like to go, but I can make no firm appointments now, because of this special session coming on next Monday.