National Defense Establishment (unification of the Armed Services): Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on S. 758, a Bill to Promote the National Security by Providing for a National Defense Establishment which Shall be Administered by a Secretary of National Defense, and for a Department of the Army, a Department of the Navy, and a Department of the Air Force with the Nationaldefense Establishment ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947 - National security - 713 pages

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Page 306 - Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Air Force...
Page 104 - Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: 1.
Page 13 - Defense, and the Secretary of Defense shall be the head thereof. (b) There shall be within the Department of Defense (1) the Department of the Army...
Page 230 - General; the Secretary of Defense; the Secretary of the Army; the Secretary of the Navy; the Secretary of the Air Force; the...
Page 71 - Navy, the chief officer of which shall be called the Secretary of the Navy, whose duty it shall he to execute such orders as he shall receive from the President of the United States, relative to the procurement of naval stores and materials and the construction, armament, equipment, and employment of vessels of war, as well as all other matters connected with the naval establishment of the United States.
Page 13 - Act, without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended...
Page 562 - We may hear more about the National Association of Manufacturers, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the American Medical Association, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the Farmers...
Page 20 - No suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced by or against the head of any agency or other officer of the United States, in his official capacity or in relation to the discharge of his official duties, shall abate by reason of the taking effect of...
Page 305 - Subject to the authority and direction of the President and the Secretary of Defense...
Page 184 - Corps shall be organized, trained, and equipped to provide fleet marine forces of combined arms, together with supporting air components, for service with the fleet in the seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and for the conduct of such land operations as may be essential to the prosecution of a naval campaign.

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