Increase of Income Limitations on Non-service-connected Pensions for World Wars I and II.: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, First Session, on H.R. 208 [and Others]; Bills Seeking to Increase Income Limitations Applicable to Non-service-connected Pensions for Veterans and Widows of World Wars I and II. May 3, 4 and 8, 1951

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