Mississippi River Commission: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventieth Congress, Second Session, on the Nomination of Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Jackson and Maj. Ernest Graves as Members of the Mississippi River Commission, January 10 and 11, 1929U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929 - 38 pages |
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