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" There is, of course, no more persuasive evidence of the purpose of a statute than the words by which the legislature undertook to give expression to its wishes. Often these words are sufficient in and of themselves to determine the purpose of the legislation.... "
Second Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 1958: Hearings Before Subcommittees ... - Page 206
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1958 - 621 pages
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United States Customs Court Reports: Cases Adjudged in the United ..., Volume 81

United States. Customs Court - Customs administration - 1978 - 276 pages
...discovery of the purpose of the draftsmen of a statute * * *. There is, of course, no more persuasive evidence of the purpose of a statute than the words by which the legislature undertook to give expression to its wishes. Often these words are sufficient in and of themselves to...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 310

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1940 - 790 pages
...Court. a law drawn to meet many needs of a major occupation.17 There is, of course, no more persuasive evidence of the purpose of a statute than the words by which the legislature undertook to give expression to its wishes. Often these words are sufficient in and of themselves to...
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Problems of American Small Business: Hearings ..., Volume 5; Volumes 41-46

United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business - Industries - 1942 - 1092 pages
...raised or presented during the hearings or debates in Congress on the bill. There is no more persuasive evidence of the purpose of a statute than the words by which the legislature undertook to give expression to its wishes, and these words are sufficient in and of themselves to...
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Laws Relating to the Navy, Annotated ...: In Force January 1, 1945, Volume 1

United States - Naval law - 1945 - 712 pages
...1938. See also 39 Op: Atty. Gen. 385, 288, Hay '5, 1939.) "There is, of course, no more persuasive evidence of the purpose of a statute than the words by which the legislature undertook to give expression to its wishes. Often these words are sufficient in and of themselves to...
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Allocation of Grain for Production of Distilled Or Neutral Spirits for ...

United States. Congress. House. Banking and CurrencyCommittee - 1948 - 144 pages
...315 US 561,. 563, 86 L. Ed. 1026, 1028 ; US v. Fisher, 109 TJ. S. 143. There is no more persuasive evidence of the purpose of a statute than the words by which the legislature undertook to give expression to its wishes. US v. American Trucking Associations, 310 US 534, 543,...
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Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States ..., Volume 40

United States. Department of Justice - Administrative law - 1949 - 674 pages
...particularly in a law drawn to meet many needs of a major occupation. "There is, of course, no more persuasive evidence of the purpose of a statute than the words by which the legislature undertook to give expression to its wishes. Often these words are sufficient in and of themselves to...
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Decisions and Reports, Volume 22

United States. Securities and Exchange Commission - Securities - 1953 - 1386 pages
...legislation. As stated by the United States Supreme Court : There Is, of course, no more persuasive evidence of the purpose of a statute than the words by which the legislature undertook to give expression to its wishes . . . When that meaning has led to absurd or futile results,...
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Department of Agriculture Appropriations for 1959: Hearings Before the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1958 - 1540 pages
...individual who might own several farms, and thereby, by working out some acreage reserve contract with <ine tenant farmer, preclude himself from participating...producer aggregating in excess of $3,000 regarding thel958 crops would be contrary to the restriction and, therefore, legally improper. However, in view...
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Department of Agriculture Appropriations: Hearings Before the ..., Parts 3-5

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - Budget - 1958 - 1552 pages
...participating with other tenants on different farms, to the disadvantage of those other tenants.1' The primary question here involved is whether the...wishes ; and, on first examination of the provision, thPr would appear to be no doubt that payments to any one producer aggregating in excess of $3,000...
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Decisions of the Department of the Interior, Volume 57

United States. Department of the Interior - Natural resources - 1939 - 680 pages
...raised or presented during the hearings or debates in Congress on the bill. There is no more persuasive evidence of the purpose of a statute than the words by which the legislature undertook to give expression to its wishes, and these words are sufficient in and of themselves to...
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