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Harry Truman: “To impose a liability upon the Federal Government for such penalties, interest, and charges is inconsistent with the…”

On the recordSeptember 27, 1950
To impose a liability upon the Federal Government for such penalties, interest, and charges is inconsistent with the sound and long established doctrines that claims against the United States do not bear interest and that the Federal Government is not liable for penalties
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Memorandum of Disapproval of Bill Relating to a Claim of the Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, Kansas.

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