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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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