Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country has greater troubles than this wild goose chase to which Congress should address itself. ... I don't want anything like this to distract the minds of the people from the great and fundamental economic conditions they are faced with now. We have large surpluses to eat and wear, yet unemployment is rife. Instead of going off witch hunting, why not create a committee to study why, in the midst of plenty, we are in the midst of want? . . . An economic system that permits that has something wrong with it. ... It isn't the preaching of radicals that creates unrest...