Home Rule and Reorganization for the District of Columbia: Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittees on Home Rule and Reorganization of the Senate and House Committees on the District of Columbia, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1968 and H. R. 4902, Bills Providing for Home Rule and Reorganization of Government of the District of Columbia, February 2 to 10, 1948U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 - 557 страница |
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