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The rapid growth of our foreign trade makes it of the utmost importance that governmental agencies through which that trade is to be aided and protected should possess a high degree of efficiency.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Taft stresses the importance of efficiency in governmental agencies that support foreign trade.

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