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Bill Taft: “Nothing, however, halts business and interferes with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the…”

On the recordAugust 16, 1911
Nothing, however, halts business and interferes with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the tariff.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval an Act Revising the Schedule of Duties on Wool and Wool...

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