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Calvin Coolidge: “Well that rather confirms what I say, that it is a question that would need considerable study and investigation in…”

On the recordAugust 26, 1926
Well that rather confirms what I say, that it is a question that would need considerable study and investigation in order to determine it, but I should think it would be plain that whatever powers, as I stated the Federal Trade Commission has, would be incidental in some way or other to interstate commerce.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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