Nomination of Herbert D. Vogel: Hearings Before the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, Second Session, on the Nomination of Herbert D. Vogel to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, August 9 and 10, 1954U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954 - 75 pages |
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