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Calvin Coolidge: I don't think that in passing a bill of this kind the opportunity should be seized on to put the Government in a…

On the recordApril 16, 1928
I don't think that in passing a bill of this kind the opportunity should be seized on to put the Government in a position where it would have to endow them with very large damages.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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