Joseph Taylor Robinson letter, 1935.

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Joseph Taylor Robinson letter, 1935.

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Letter of acknowledgment to Ashley Cole, a lawyer of New York City, for expressing approval of Robinson's speech in answer to Senator Huey P. Long's attacks on the Roosevelt administration and for condemning Long's "reckless assertions and unfounded statements and his willingness to impede the progress of measures for national recovery."

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