Second Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Bill for 1942: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session, on the Second Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Bill for 1942 (including Defense Aid--lend-lease Appropriations) ..., Parts 1-2

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Page 81 - Congress, or both, any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.
Page 152 - President deems satisfactory. (c) After June 30, 1943, or after the passage of a concurrent resolution by the two Houses before June 30, 1943, which declares that the powers conferred by or pursuant to subsection (a) are no longer necessary to promote the defense of the United States...
Page 152 - July 1, 1946, any of such powers may be exercised to the extent necessary to carry out a contract or agreement with such a foreign government made before July 1, 1943, or before the passage of such concurrent resolution, whichever is the earlier.
Page 47 - Government as he may designate, further to carry out the provisions of an Act to promote the defense of the United States...
Page 30 - I will get them as quickly as possible. (Thereupon, at 12.55 o'clock pm, the subcommittee took a recess until 2.15 o'clock pm) AFTERNOON SESSION. The committee met. pursuant to the taking of the recess, at 2.15 o'clock pm TESTIMONY OF HERBERT HOOVER— ResumedSenator LODGE.
Page 26 - KNOWN As THE WOMEN'S BUREAU Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be established in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Women's Bureau.
Page 121 - In accordance with its policy of maintaining steamship charter and cargo rates at as reasonable a level as possible, the Maritime Commission today announced a new scale of maximum time charter rates for United States and foreign flag cargo and tanker vessels, effective January 20.
Page 152 - June 30, 1943, which declares that the powers conferred by or pursuant to subsection (a) are no longer necessary to promote the defense of the United States, neither the President nor the head of any department or agency shall exercise any of the powers conferred by or pursuant to subsection (a) ; except that until July 1...
Page 55 - The foregoing estimate of appropriation is required to meet a contingency which has arisen since the transmission of the Budget for the fiscal year 1939, and approval is recommended.
Page 9 - The Chief of Staff of the Army and the Chief of Naval Operations...

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