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Grover Cleveland: This does not furnish a good reason for disapproving the erection of other buildings where actually necessary.

On the recordJuly 5, 1886
This does not furnish a good reason for disapproving the erection of other buildings where actually necessary.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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