07/11/1940
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"This country at last is emerging from the great economic depression which has engulfed the entire Nation for six years and some parts of our population for a much longer period."
"Our hospitals, and particularly those administered by non-profit religious organizations, symbolize better than any other institution the depth as well as the dynamic quality of this national characte..."
"I gladly embrace this opportunity to acknowledge the contributions you are making to human welfare."
"By the passage of the Vinson-Trammell Bill which authorizes the upbuilding of our Navy to the limits of existing treaties, our national legislation gave very definite expression of its purpose to incr..."