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activities Advisory Commission Agriculture American Anna Howard Shaw appointed armistice assistance Baltimore Bureau campaign Capitol Carolina Chicago child-welfare Children's community councils continued cooperation coordination coun Council of National councils of defense Councils Section county councils created Defense system demobilization Department of Labor Director disbanded Education emergency Employment Service established executive Federal agencies Field Division Food Administration foreign George W Government Highways Transport Committee Industries Board investigations July Medical Board Medical Corps meeting ment military mittee National Defense North Carolina nurses Ohio organization permanent Philadelphia plans President problems Public Health Service Railroad reconstruction and readjustment Red Cross regional chairmen request returning soldiers Secretary secure Sept soldiers and sailors South Dakota Surgeon tion United States Army United States Employment United States Navy Vice Chairman War Industries Board Washington welfare William Woman's Committee workers York City
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Page 155 - ... and means of production, and availability of military supplies; the giving of information to producers and manufacturers as to the class of supplies needed by the military and other services of the government, the requirements relating thereto, and the creation of relations which will render possible in time of need the immediate concentration and utilization of the resources of the nation.
Page 100 - Defense is hereby established for the coordination of industries and resources for the national security and welfare...
Page 9 - Council of National Defense, composed of the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor. The Council, in turn, was directed to nominate, and the President to appoint "An Advisory Commission consisting of no more than seven persons...
Page 155 - ... increase of domestic production of articles and materials essential to the support of armies and of the people during the interruption of foreign commerce...
Page 4 - Defense to supervise and direct investigations and make recommendations to the President and the heads of executive departments as to the location of railroads with reference to the frontier of the United States so as to render possible expeditious concentration of troops and supplies to points of defense...
Page 146 - Department of Science and Research of the Council of National Defense...
Page 4 - That the sum of $200,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available for experimental work and investigations undertaken by the council, by the advisory commission, or subordinate bodies, for the employment of a director, expert and clerical expenses and supplies, and for the necessary expenses of members of the advisory commission or subordinate bodies going to and attending Oi reports'...
Page 4 - Under the terms of the act, the council was among other things charged with the " coordination of industries and resources for the national security and welfare " and with the " creation of relations which render possible in time of need the immediate concentration and utilization of the resources of the Nation.
Page 37 - Another activity of increasing importance for the councils during the summer of 1918 was undertaken at the request of the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation of the Department of Labor.
Page 64 - ... while we are carrying on this war. The movement to establish gardens, therefore, and to have the children work in them is just as real and patriotic an effort as the building of ships or the firing of cannon. I hope that this spring every school will have a regiment in the Volunteer War Garden Army. Cordially and sincerely yours, WOODROW WILSON Hon. Franklin K. Lane Secretary of the Interior...