The President's News Conference
08/20/1931
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Passports may be amended in the United States by the Department of State or any of the passport agents of the Department...
Any study of many of these public works provisions will indicate plainly their pork-barrel characteristics.
The Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign...
The reductions must be real and positive.