Voluntary Adjustment of Railroad Obligations: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and Reorganization of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, First [-third] Session on H.R. 3704, Subsequently Amended and Reintroduced as H.R. 5407, a Bill to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act to Establish a Uniform System of Bankruptcy Throughout the United States, " Approved July 1, 1898, and Acts Amendatory Thereof and Supplementary Thereto. March 1 and 6, 1939

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Letter from Hon Harold L Ickes Secretary of the Interior to Hon
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Statement of Hon Lawrence A Truett assistant attorney general of
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Resolution by board of supervisors Santa Barbara County Calif
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Statement of Hon Overton Brooks a Representative in Congress from
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Statement of Hon James F OConnor a Representative in Congress from
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Brief of the State of California submitted by Hon Earl Warren attorney
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Statement of Samuel H King attorney at law Washington D C
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Statement of Hon William M Colmer a Representative in Congress from
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Statement of Hon Warren H Gilman assistant attorney general of
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Statement of Raymond M Hudson attorney at law Washington D C
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Statement of Capt H A Stuart Director of Naval Petroleum Reserves
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Statement of Hon Thomas F Ford a Representative in Congress from
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John Thomas Taylor director national legislative committee
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Read Lewis representing Foreign Language Information Service
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Ralph Emerson representing the Maritime Unions of the Committee
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J F Harrington visa Division Department of State
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Hon James L Houghteling Commissioner of Immigration
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Hon Howard W Smith a Representative in Congress from the State
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APRIL 13 1939
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Statement of Hon J Will Taylor a Representative in Congress from
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Text of H R 3356 12
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Memorandum on behalf of Carden and Herd_ 46
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Reprinting of documents filed by Carden and Herd_____ 5994
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William Campbell Armstrong representing executors of the estate
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Reply brief on behalf of Percy R Pyne 2d Robert Goelet August Heck
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Hon John J Parker senior judge United States Circuit Court
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Hon Arthur T Vanderbilt Newark N
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Hon Fred M Vinson associate justice United States Court of
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Página 54 - Mexico; thence westwardly along the whole southern boundary of New Mexico (which runs north of the town called Paso) to its western termination; thence northward along the western line of New Mexico until it intersects the first branch of the river Gila (or if it should not intersect any branch of that river, then to the point on the said line nearest to such branch, and thence in a direct line to the same) ; thence down the middle of the said branch and of the said river until it empties into the...
Página 252 - That the people inhabiting said proposed states do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof...
Página 19 - ... shall also retain all the vacant and unappropriated lands lying within its limits, to be applied to the payment of the debts and liabilities of said republic of Texas, and the residue of said lands, after discharging said debts and liabilities, to be disposed of as said State may direct ; but in no event are said debts and liabilities to become a charge upon the government of the United States.
Página 115 - President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States...
Página 206 - When the Revolution took place the people of each State became themselves sovereign, and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the general government.
Página 159 - Britain: and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.
Página 24 - Texas, shall retain all the public funds, debts, taxes, and dues of every kind, which may belong to or be due and owing said republic; and shall also retain all the vacant and unappropriated lands lying within its limits...
Página 120 - If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this Act, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Página 211 - By the preceding course of reasoning we have arrived at these general conclusions.: First, the shores of navigable waters, and the soils under them, were not granted by the Constitution to the United States, but were reserved to the States respectively. Secondly, the new States have the same rights, sovereignty, and jurisdiction over this subject as the original States.
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