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On the recordSeptember 25, 1909
The Young Men's Christian Association supplies a need in every community which no church, no institution, nothing else that I know of can meet.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Remarks at the Young Men's Christian Association in Salt Lake City, Utah

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