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Calvin Coolidge: This legislation is exceedingly urgent, and essential to the exercise of national authority for the protection of the…

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This legislation is exceedingly urgent, and essential to the exercise of national authority for the protection of the people.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge stresses the urgency of legislation to empower national authority for public protection.

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