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On the recordDecember 7, 1967
This could destroy the usefulness of the preferred ship mortgage as a means of privately financing merchant ship construction--a method which Congress itself authorized and approved in the Ship Mortgage Act of 1920.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Veto of Bill Granting Masters of Vessels a Lien on Those Vessels for Their Wages and Certain Disbursements

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