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Harry Truman: I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby find and declare, on the basis of the…

On the recordOctober 11, 1950
I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby find and declare, on the basis of the investigation and report of the United States Tariff Commission, that changed circumstances require the modification, as hereinafter set forth, of the said proclamation of September 5, 1939, as suspended in part and modified, to carry out the purposes of the said section 22.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Proclamation 2907—Supplemental Quota on Imports of Extra-Long-Staple Cotton

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