12/22/1936
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"Today, we have many means of knowing each other—means that at last have sounded the doom of sectionalism."
"There developed the problem of self-contained territories because the Nation's expansion exceeded its development of means of transportation."
"Surely, all this is holy ground."
"It is ordered that a division which shall be known as the Division of Territories and Island Possessions be, and it is hereby, established in the Department of the Interior."