FDR: “I therefore commend to the Congress that the bequest of Mr. Justice…”

On the recordApril 24, 1935

I therefore commend to the Congress that the bequest of Mr. Justice Holmes be not covered into the general fund of the Treasury.

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Democratic · New York

Source

Message to Congress on the Bequest to the Nation by Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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