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On the recordDecember 6, 1903
Publicity can do no harm to the honest corporation. The only corporation that has cause to dread it is the corporation which shrinks from the light, and about the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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