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On the recordMay 20, 1931
The 50 years of the life of the Red Cross, which the American people celebrate today, have been years of evolution of an impulse and an idea and a method to produce this greatest institution in alleviation of human suffering that we have ever known.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Address to the American National Red Cross.

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