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Calvin Coolidge: “It almost seems to me as though the protection of the people and the property in the lower Mississippi that need…”

On the recordApril 9, 1928
It almost seems to me as though the protection of the people and the property in the lower Mississippi that need protection has been somewhat lost sight of.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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