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On the recordDecember 4, 1929
The movements which have led to the improvement of the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue and to the Mount Vernon Highway are traced.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Message to the Congress Transmitting the 11th Report of the National Commission of Fine Arts.

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