Extending Classified Civil Service: Hearings Before the Committee on Civil Service, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on H.R. 960, an Act Extending the Classified Civil Service of the United States. April 10 to 30, 1940 ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940 - Civil service - 263 pages
Considers (75) H.R. 2700, (76) H.R. 5496, (76) S. 1904, (76) S. 1730, (76) H.R. 960.

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