Carolina QuotesSo, our honest politicians and our honorable corporation heads owe it to their reputations to bring their activities out into the open.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Section VI: “Let There Be Light”, p. 36 (Note: different pagination from other references here)
- work
- The New Freedom (1913)
- year
- 1913
- locator
- p. 36
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