The President's News Conference
06/19/1931
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Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 36; U.S. Code, title 16, sec. 473), and on th...
Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard...
One never makes a statement like that.
Provided further, That the charge for the issue of an original passport shall be $9.