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On the recordFebruary 27, 1928
The Department of Health and the Department of Education of Porto Rico are combining to make of the Porto Ricans of the future a different type physically and mentally from those we found in Porto Rico
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Letter to the Hon. Horace M. Towner, Governor of Porto Rico, on the Status of Porto Rico

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