This may be in part due to a general profession of holding to the principle of Benjamin Franklin that office should neither be sought nor refused and in part to the American idea that the people choose their own officers so that public service is not optional.
Coolidge explains the American principle that public office should be chosen by the people.
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I Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, pursuant to the authority vested in me by law, do hereby amend Executive Order No. 4846-A, dated March 30, 1928, to include the assignment of the frequencies of 6120 kilocycles…
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I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, pursuant to the authority vested in me by law, do hereby amend Executive Order No. 4846-A, dated March 30, 1928, to include the assignment of the frequencies of 6120 kilocycles…
Whereas Section 6 of the Radio Act of 1927 provides that all Government stations shall use such frequencies or wavelengths as shall be assigned to each or to each class by the President
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