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Albert Beveridge: No more carefully worded paper for the purposes it was intended to accomplish ever was laid before a deliberative body.

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No more carefully worded paper for the purposes it was intended to accomplish ever was laid before a deliberative body.
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Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

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Beveridge praises the meticulous drafting of a significant document presented to a deliberative body.

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