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Roosevelt seeks half million for anti monopoly probe
President Roosevelt leaves Washington on a vacation voyage aboard the new cruiser Philadelphia and asks Congress for a half million dollars to fund investigations into private monopolies. He warns that concentration of economic power resembles fascism while Congress skeptics doubt the results. The piece covers tax law changes, the wage hour bill delays, and political friction between Roosevelt and Garner as party lines shift.
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