Nomination of Charles E. Whittaker: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, First Session, on Nomination of Charles E. Whittaker, of Missouri, to be the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, March 18, 1957

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 - 34 sider
 

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