The enlarged opportunities for the alleviation of human suffering that you and your staff will now utilize are due I understand to the indefatigable effort of Mrs. Henry Breckenridge.
Herbert Hoover: “The enlarged opportunities for the alleviation of human suffering that you and your staff will now utilize are due I…”
On the recordOctober 14, 1929
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Message on the Dedication of the Wilmer Institute of Ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University.
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