07/18/1929
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"Provided further, That the charge for the issue of an original passport shall be $9."
"Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard 'police component.'"
"Passports may be amended in the United States by the Department of State or any of the passport agents of the Department of State"
"No such suggestion has ever been made by any American official."