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On the recordNovember 10, 1909
I do not think that the money we have spent even estimating it at the highest sum, has been wasted in any way.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Washington Convention of the Laymen's Missionary Movement in Continental Memorial Hall

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