Decisions of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs in Appealed Pension and Civil Service Retirement Cases ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1933 - Civil service

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Page xx - An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended, shall extend to persons given employment under the provisions of this Act.
Page 104 - That all persons who served ninety days or more in the military or naval service of the United States during the war with Spain, the Philippine insurrection, or the China relief expedition...
Page 330 - Act for the better government of the Navy of the United States...
Page xviii - ... totally disabled for useful and efficient service In the grade or class of position occupied by the employee, by reason of disease or injury not due to vicious habits, Intemperance, or willful misconduct...
Page xxviii - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into full force and effect.
Page xxv - Federal farm-loan bonds, such portions of the "civil-service retirement and disability fund " as in his judgment may not be immediately required for the payment of annuities, refunds, and allowances as...
Page xxiv - ... deductions shall be a full and complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands whatsoever for the services rendered by such person during the period covered by such payment, except as to the benefits provided under this Sub-Part.
Page xxix - No employee shall be retired under the provisions of this section unless examined by a medical officer of the United States, or a duly qualified physician or surgeon, or board of physicians or surgeons, designated by the Commissioner of Pensions for that purpose, and found to be disabled in the degree and in the manner specified herein.
Page 304 - Frequently, however, even when the plain meaning did not produce absurd results but merely an unreasonable one "plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole" this Court has followed that purpose, rather than the literal words.
Page 104 - States during the late war of the rebellion and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, and who are now or who may hereafter be suffering from any mental or physical disability or disabilities of a permanent character, not the result of their own vicious habits, which so incapacitates them from the performance of manual labor as to render them unable to earn a support...

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