Shortly after George M. Cohan had presented to President Hoover the first copy of “Father of the Land We Love,” the song written for the George Washington bi-centennial, Congressman Sol Bloom, associate director of the bicentennial commission, sang Mr. Cohan’s song for the first time to an audience of newspapermen in the White House press room.
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