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Calvin Coolidge: “The United States Government was trying to fix the price of silver by law, which, of course, was bound to fail.”

On the recordNovember 15, 1928
The United States Government was trying to fix the price of silver by law, which, of course, was bound to fail.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Address Before the National Grange Convention, Washington, D.C.

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