Woodrow Wilson actually said...
(2) to surrender to said corporation for cancellation Three Million Five Hundred Thousand shares of stock of said corporation, of the par value of One Hundred Dollars ($100) each, held by the United States, upon receiving from said corporation the sum of Three Hundred and Fifty Million Dollars, for account of the United States, in full payment and liquidation of said stock so surrendered for cancellation, and
Context
Executive Order 3292—Reduction of Capital Stock of United States Grain Corporation
06/25/1920