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Harry Truman: The Commission is going to do all it can out of its present appropriation.

On the recordOctober 12, 1951
The Commission is going to do all it can out of its present appropriation.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Letter to the President of the Senate Requesting Appropriations for the Enforcement of Antimonopoly Legislation.

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