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1912140940054Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1912. First Edition. Very Good. 92 pp. First paperback edition. Stapled pamplet. Very Good with several small chips to edges foxing to covers textblock edge prelims and terminals. Staples rusted wear to staple holes on front cover though firmly attached. A report on the sinking of the Titanic with recommendations that did much to increase the safety of the world's sea lanes. Full title: "Titanic" Disaster Report of the Committee on Commerce United States Senate Pursuant to S. Res. 283 Directing the Committee to Investigate the Causes Leading to the Wreck of the White Star Liner "Titanic" Together with Speeches by Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan and Senator Isidor Raynor of Maryland Report N. 806 62d Congress 2d Session. Government Printing Office unknown books
1976006203Washington D.C.: U.S Government Printing Office 1976. SCARCE 2 documents recording the Hearing before and Report of the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary chaired by James O. Eastland of Mississippi. This hearing was in response to the Wounded Knee Takeover which began in February 1973 when around 200 Oglala Lakota Native Americans and followers of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Hearing document is 207 pp. with Index numbered i-xiv. It is Near fine staples rusted. The report is Fine 44 pp. Both documents contain numerous black and white photos. . First Editions. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. U.S Government Printing Office Paperback books
1972497861972. United States Congress. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Subcommittee on Labor. Legislative History of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. H.R. 1746 P.L. 92-261 Amending Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office 1972. xxii 2067 pp. Original cloth moderate shelfwear hinges cracked but secure internally clean. Ex-library. Stamps to preliminaries. $250. President Johnson's Executive Order 11246 enshrined the principle of nondiscrimination in federal employment and introduced the phrase "affirmative action" to the national debate on minority rights. This was followed by the creation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by Congress which drew upon Johnson's order and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to established timetables and goals for the expansion of minority representation in federal employment and contracting. unknown books
1990001752Washington D.C.: U.S. Govt. Printing Office 1990. 599 pages. Near Fine front wrapper lightly soiled and first section has 9 pages with sparse marginal notations. A scarce document from this historic hearing. First Printing. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. U.S. Govt. Printing Office Paperback books
2000184810Washington: U.S. G.P.O. 2000. Paperback. VG ex-lib copy All volumes have library stickers and stamps on spine rear inside rear cover title page bookblock. Blue paper wraps with silver lettering. 4 volumes xviii 3121 pages. "February 12 1999."/ "Under the supervision of the Secretary of the Senate"--Title page verso./ Distributed to all depository libraries in paper./ Shipping list no.: 2001-0008-S./ Paged continuously./ Includes bibliographical references. U.S. G.P.O. paperback books
1963253466Washington DC: GPO 1963. 8 Parts complete run ii 1-629 i-v pp. some creasings and edge worn around staples else good condition. pt. 1. February 14 1963 -- pt. 2. July 13 and 14 1961 -- pt. 3. April 10 1962 -- pt. 4. April 3 1963 -- pt. 5. February 8 March 13 1963 -- pt. 6. Testimony of Lyle Stuart February 8 1963 -- pt. 7. Testimony of Sidney Lens February 15 1963 -- pt. 8. Testimony of Waldo Frank. March 8 1963. GPO unknown books
194046293Washington DC: U.S. Govt. Printing Office 1940. First Edition. 8vo pp. xxi 16207-17599 viii. Dark blue cloth three-quarter leather stamped in gilt. Marbled edges. Illustrated wtih photographs charts diagrams. Cover somewhat worn at edges but a VG tight copy. U.S. Govt. Printing Office unknown books
190489651Washington: GPO 1904. Hardcover. Good. index xxv 472p. Original 1/2 leather with brown cloth. 22cm. Cover scuffed. Former owner's name K. D. Sperry" in gilt at base of backstrip. Page edges marbled to match endpapers. 58th Congress 2d. Session. Senate. Document No. 105. <br/><br/> GPO hardcover books
1957253309Washington: GPO 1957. Pamphlet. Of the 95 parts to this series we have 80 parts nos. 1-10 12-424446-50 52-53 55-64 68-74 76-78 80-89 for about 7.5 vertical inches. Wraps good condition. GPO unknown books
1954253460Washington DC: GPO 1954. 71 parts in this series we are offering parts 1-16 45-71. Wraps shelf worn some oxidation along the top edge of the collection else in good condition. Investigates charges that Senator Joe McCarthy Chairman of Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and Subcommittee counsel Roy M. Cohn sought preferential treatment from Army for former Subcommittee consultant Private G. David Schine. Also investigates countercharges that Secretary of Army Robert T. Stevens and others brought these charges to discredit the Subcommittee investigation of communist infiltration of the Army.These are the famous "Army-McCarthy" hearings that undid the career of Senator McCarthy. GPO unknown books
192274865Washington: GPO 1922. Hardcover. Very Good. This volume only of 2. 812p. Contemporary tan buckram. No Jacket. Not a proud chapter in American history. <br/><br/> GPO hardcover books
19106527Washington: GPO 1910. 136p. 1 illus. tables. half-bound in leather leather rubbed & worn marbled end papers first edition. Senate document no. 521. GPO unknown books
1955253379Washington: GPO 1955. volumes 1-8 ii1-1300 pp. some parts shelf worn else good condition. Harvey Matusow was an American Communist who became an informer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was paid to be a witness for a variety of anti-subversion bodies including the House Un-American Activities Committee before eventually recanting the bulk of his testimony. These activities led to his own perjury conviction and a prison sentence. His McCarthy era activities overshadowed his later work as an artist actor producer and our favorite working as a clown in New Mexico while living in a school bus. GPO unknown books
1952127862Washington: GPO 1952. Fourteen booklets the first one a substantial 412p. slightly worn wraps the remainder slender staplebound pamphlet format; generally very good. Testimony by and about teachers in public schools and universities suspected of Communist Party activities or sympathies. GPO unknown books
1965253462Washington DC: GPO 1965. 18 parts in the "Otepka Case" series part of a larger State Deptarment security series. We are offering "Otepka Case" parts I-VII IX-XIII and XVI. Wraps Par XVI has writing in pen across the cover all shelf worn some oxidation along the top edge of the collection else in good condition. Otto F. Otepka May 6 1915 - March 20 2010 was a Deputy Director of the United States State Department's Office of Security in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He was fired as the State Department's chief security evaluations officer on November 5 1963; he had furnished classified files to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security. Otepka was later appointed by Richard Nixon to a position on the Subversive Activities Control Board; he retired in 1972. GPO unknown books
19991300154Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1999. Softcover. Octavo; pagination continuous to other volumes: i-xx 1619-3183 1574 pages to this volume; VG-; paperback white covers black lettering: moderate vertical creasing to spine and covers towards hinges; mild scuffing to text-block mostly to top; mild scuffing to covers and creasing to corners; small area of residue to back cover; interior clean; volume housed in plastic covering; shelved U.S. Political Bios. 1300154. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. U.S. Government Printing Office unknown books
19421331732Washington: Government Printing Office 1942-1943. Hardcover. Octavo; G; Ex-library; Hardcover; Spine tan with gold print on red and black banners library call number in ink at bottom; Boards in tan cloth light wear to spine caps smudging rubbing; Text block has library book plate on front pastedown library stamp on front flyleaf library pocket on rear pastedown light tanning to endpapers penciled library information on title pages else clean and tight mild age-toning to paper; paged 4957-6740 illustrated tables 1 folded-map. 1331732. FP New Rockville Stock. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1953253794Washington: GPO 1953. Parts 1 through 7 out of 10 all in staplebound wraps Parts 1 & 5 have creased front covers else in good condition. Transcripts of hearings on VOA before the subcommittee headed by Joe McCarthy. Testimony discusses efforts to expand VOA around the world to combat communist influence and some of the difficulties encountered. GPO unknown books
1952253294Washington: GPO 1952. volumes 1-14 complete run. i1-1168 i-iii pp. worn wraps shelf worn and some edge work cover pages else good condition. Testimony by and about teachers in public schools and universities suspected of Communist Party activities or sympathies. GPO unknown books
192727665n.p.: Senate of Maryland 1927. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy mail fold with small tears along the folds text clean. 6 pp. 4to. Senate of Maryland unknown books
194172764Washington: GPO 1941. Paperback. Good. 382p. No separate wrapper. 24cm. First leaf creased at corner and has a few small chips Backstrip browned. "Printed for the use of the Special Committee." Also included is a folded copy of the separate brief five-page Preliminary Report by the Committee issued on September 11th 77th Congress. 1st Sessions. Senate Report No. 676. <br/><br/> GPO paperback books
1974152671Washington D. C.: GPO 1974. x 409p. green Senate wraps spine panel faded back cover has small light crease. 93rd congress second session. GPO unknown books
197589034Washington D. C.: GPO 1975. iv 245p. illustrated with documents in facsimile first issue green Senate wraps 9 x 5.75 inches spine panel is faintly sunned. A nice fresh copy. This was the lead-in effort by the Church committed to FIND THINGS OUT. He and some others of the committee and some of their staff pushed hard enough to telegraph to the CIA that it was going to have to pony up topics more important than stockpiles of poison. Find here testimony and prepared statements of William Colby Richard Helms E. Schantz Univ Wisc. / DoD C. Senseney DoD Special Ops at Fort Detrick R. Andrews advisor to Defense lawyers find also mention of Karamessines MKNAOMI Gottlieb contamination of the NY subways US Army aerosols &c. But the BIG topic is SHELLFISH TOXIN storage of which by CIA was illegal. This poison was the "safest" topic to discuss and therefore the only biological agent or program to be discussed at length. Other volumes in the series five vols "Hearings" six or seven "Supplementary" vols broach the murders and the broader distortions. GPO unknown books
1975177271Washington D. C.: GPO 1975. iv 245p. illustrated with documents in facsimile first issue green Senate wraps 9 x 5.75 inches spine panel is faintly sunned. A nice fresh copy. Concerns the Chile manipulation. Gary Hart was one of the senators and is outspoken; witnesses include ambassador Edward Korry Clark Clifford Cyurus Vance David Atlee Phillips Morton Halperin. GPO unknown books
1963816051963. U.S. Congress Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Prayers in Public Schools and Other Matters: Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary Eighty-Seventh Congress Second Session on S.J. Res. 205 and others July 26 and August 2 1962. Washington: GPO 1963. v 285p. Softcover pamphlet. Stapled. No separate wrapper. 24cm. Very Good. <br/><br/> paperback books
