The President's News Conference
09/26/1929
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I propose that the treaty number and tonnage of battleships shall be reduced by one-third.
The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhel...
No such suggestion has ever been made by any American official.
Provided further, That the charge for the issue of an original passport shall be $9.