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Eisenhower: “The Attorney General is seeking by civil process to force rebates from the builders who benefited from these huge…”

On the recordOctober 22, 1954
The Attorney General is seeking by civil process to force rebates from the builders who benefited from these huge windfalls.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Letter to Senator Capehart on the Investigation of the Federal Housing Administration.

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