04/14/1946
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"I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby invite and urge the States of the Union and foreign nations to participate to the fullest practicable extent in the said First ..."
"Special treatment of this type for specific municipalities would not only be administratively unfair and unsound, but if applied generally to several cities would add significantly to the cost of the ..."
"Such special treatment is obviously contradictory to the spirit and intent of the constitutional and legislative requirements which provide for the seventeenth decennial census."
"NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 160), I hereby create a board of three members, to be appointed by me, to investig..."