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Calvin Coolidge: “An instrument of such far-reaching magnitude, fraught with so great a power for good to humanity, naturally requires…”

On the recordOctober 3, 1927
An instrument of such far-reaching magnitude, fraught with so great a power for good to humanity, naturally requires national and international regulation and control.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Opening Meeting of the International Radiotelegraph Conference, Washington, D.C.

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