"If you know a better place to live right now than this country, get a ticket and try to get there."
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Academics from the United StatesStanford University facultyUnited States Secretaries of the InteriorPhysicians from IowaStanford University staff
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Adress to Stanford Student Body, 1940. "Ray Lyman Wilbur Taken By Death", Los Angeles Times, June 27, 1949
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Ray Lyman Wilbur
Ray Lyman Wilbur (13 April 1875 – 26 June 1949) was a medical doctor, the third president of Stanford University, and the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior.
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