Lincoln's Birthday: Hearing Before the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 20, a Bill to Declare Lincoln's Birthday a Legal Holiday in the District of Columbia. January 23, 1924U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - 27 páginas |
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