United States Information and Educational Act of 1947: Hearings on H.R. 33421947 - 241 pages |
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abroad ACHESON advertising agree Ambassador American American Dental Association appropriation April April 25 areas Association authority believe BENTON bill BOLTON broadcasts bulletin Chairman Columbia Broadcasting System committee Communist Congress cooperation countries course criticism cultural Department Department's dissemination editor educational effective EISENHOWER engineering experts fact feel field foreign policy Fulton Lewis give Government agency hear HERTER House important information program interest iron curtain JACKSON JARMAN Johannes Steel JUDD kind labor Latin America legislation libraries listen LODGE LYNCH magazine MANSFIELD ment Moscow MUNDT National newspapers Office operation opinion overseas picture present president private agencies problem propaganda question radio record RICHARDS Robert Taft Russian Secretary HARRIMAN Secretary MARSHALL Senator Taft short-wave SMITH Soviet Union statement subcommittee Taber tell thing tion truth trying understand Voice of America Washington words
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Page 7 - Committee, and in necessary travel, and while so engaged they may be paid actual travel expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses.
Page 8 - If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby. SEC. 16. This Act may be cited as the "National Labor Relations Act.
Page 4 - The authorization of such allowances and other benefits and the payment thereof out of any appropriations available therefor shall be considered as meeting all the requirements of section 1765 of the Revised Statutes.
Page 123 - CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN NATIONAL FEDERATION OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S CLUBS NATIONAL LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS NATIONAL...
Page 44 - If there are no further questions, the committee will stand adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, at which time we will first hear Ambassador Smith, our American Ambassador to Moscow, and then Assistant Secretary of State Benton.
Page 4 - Department" means the Department of State. (3) "Government agency" means any executive department, board, bure.au, commission, or other agency in the executive branch of the Federal Government, or independent establishment, or any corporation wholly owned (either directly or through one or more corporations) by the United States.
Page i - Secretary is authorized, when he finds it appropriate, to provide for the preparation, and dissemination abroad, of information about the United States, its people, and its policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, and other information media, and through information centers and instructors abroad.
Page 7 - Congress may provide, to make grants of money, services, or materials to State and local governmental institutions in the United States, to governmental institutions in other countries, and to individuals and public or private nonprofit organizations both in the United States and in other countries...
Page 7 - ... authorize the transfer to other Government agencies for expenditure in the United States and in other countries, in order to carry out the purposes of this Act, any part of any appropriations available to the Department for carrying out the purposes of this Act, for direct expenditure or as a working fund, and any such expenditures may be made under the specific authority contained in this Act or under the authority governing the activities of the Government agency to which a part of any such...
Page 112 - The nature of present-day foreign relations makes it essential for the United States to maintain informational activities abroad as an integral part of the conduct of our foreign affairs.