Congressional Digest, Volume 6Alice Gram, Velma Hitchcock Congressional Digest, 1928 - United States Each issue is devoted to a controversial issue before the Congress. |
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... adopted . ” — Annual Message to Congress , Dec. 6 , 1926 . The Importance of Developing Our Water Resources THE By Hon . Herbert C. Hoover , Secretary U.S. Department of Commerce HE TIME HAS COME when we must take an en- larged vision ...
... adopted . ” — Annual Message to Congress , Dec. 6 , 1926 . The Importance of Developing Our Water Resources THE By Hon . Herbert C. Hoover , Secretary U.S. Department of Commerce HE TIME HAS COME when we must take an en- larged vision ...
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... adopted a resolution requesting the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors to review the report submitted on March 29 , 1926 , embodied in H. Doc . No. 288 ; 69th Cong . , 1st sess . , and in reports previously made , with a view to ...
... adopted a resolution requesting the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors to review the report submitted on March 29 , 1926 , embodied in H. Doc . No. 288 ; 69th Cong . , 1st sess . , and in reports previously made , with a view to ...
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... adopted by act of the Illinois State Legislature , that creating the Chicago Drainage District , was to cut a drainage canal between the Lake Michigan watershed and the Des Plaines - Illi- nois watershed , thereby creating an ...
... adopted by act of the Illinois State Legislature , that creating the Chicago Drainage District , was to cut a drainage canal between the Lake Michigan watershed and the Des Plaines - Illi- nois watershed , thereby creating an ...
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... adopted . ( 5 ) That , assuming the adoption of the plans of the engineering board , or of other plans also involving a re- adjustment of the international boundary , in order to bring each of the power houses on its own side of the ...
... adopted . ( 5 ) That , assuming the adoption of the plans of the engineering board , or of other plans also involving a re- adjustment of the international boundary , in order to bring each of the power houses on its own side of the ...
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... adopted . Both reports were then submitted to Major General Taylor , then Chief of Engineers who concurred in the views of the Board of Engineers for Riv- ers and Harbors . The report was submitted to the Sec- retary of War on March 29 ...
... adopted . Both reports were then submitted to Major General Taylor , then Chief of Engineers who concurred in the views of the Board of Engineers for Riv- ers and Harbors . The report was submitted to the Sec- retary of War on March 29 ...
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