12/25/1918
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"The committee is authorized to spend such sums as may be available for printing, postage, correspondence, employment of clerks, and other necessary expenses connected with formally and officially open..."
"Colonel George W. Goethals, now Governor of the Panama Canal, shall be Chairman of this committee."
"Honorable Richard L. Metcalfe shall be Vice-Chairman."
"No man who thinks first of himself and afterwards of his country can call himself an American."