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Harry Truman: It would have set no standards or limits to guide the Administrator except the single provision that he could not set…

On the recordJuly 2, 1948
It would have set no standards or limits to guide the Administrator except the single provision that he could not set rates of pay lower than those prescribed by the Classification Act.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Memorandum of Disapproval of Bill Relating to Pay Rates in the Veterans Administration.

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