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Calvin Coolidge: “With general prosperity, with high wages, with reasonable hours of labor, has come both the means and the time to…”

On the recordMay 15, 1928
With general prosperity, with high wages, with reasonable hours of labor, has come both the means and the time to cultivate artistic spirit.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Address at a Joint Meeting of the American Federation of Arts and the American Association of Museums, Washington, D.C.

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