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Bill Taft: “An evil which menaces the general health of the people strikes at the life of the Nation.”

On the recordJune 19, 1911
An evil which menaces the general health of the people strikes at the life of the Nation.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Message to the Congress Concerning the Pure Food and Drugs Act

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