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"text": "Because he is liberal, temperate and articulate, and because he freely recognizes past Big Business abuses, Wendell L. Willkie, president of huge Commonwealth & Southern Corp., is in a class by himself as a persuasive businessman-critic of the New Deal. […] \"Today it is not Big Business that we have to fear,\" concluded Businessman Wilkie. \"It is Big Government.\"",
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