Veterans' Legislation: Hearing Before a Subcommittee... |
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5-year term Adjusted Compensation Act adjusted-service credit Administrator of Veterans amend the World amount application April 15 Army Training Corps authorized and directed award benefits bill introduced Chairman Charles Adkins Charles Knowlton claim for disability Committee on Finance D. C. MY DEAR date of enactment DEAR SENATOR HARRISON disability compensation emergency officers Emil Zumbrunn enlisted entitled favorable consideration February February 12 filed claim furnished your committee further response HINES Humler introduced by Senator January 15 January 27 July June left thigh level premium March March 15 March 20 military service month November November 15 paid PAT HARRISON pension permanent partial proposed measure recommending favorably record referred renewable term insurance report was furnished request of January Retirement Act Seelbach Hotel Senator GEORGE Senator La Follette Seventy-fifth Congress Seventy-fourth Congress Seventy-third Congress subcommittee United States Senate veteran's death Washington widow William McMurdo World War Adjusted World War Veterans yearly renewable term
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Page 10 - An Act to maintain the credit of the United States Government...
Page 12 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs -is hereby authorized and directed to include in the regulations pertaining to service connection of disabilities additional provisions in effect...
Page 17 - The discharge or dismissal of any person from the military or naval forces on the ground that he is guilty of mutiny, treason, spying, or any offense involving moral turpitude, or willful and persistent misconduct...
Page 18 - Not later than July 2, 1926, all term insurance held by persons who were in the military service after April 6, 1917, shall be converted, without medical examination, into such form or forms of insurance as may be prescribed by regulations and as the insured may request. Regulations shall provide for the right to convert into ordinary life, twenty-payment life...
Page 21 - Philippine Constabulary, member of the National Guard of Hawaii, member of the insular force of the Navy, member of the Samoan native guard and band of the Navy, or Indian Scout — in each case for the period of service as such;". The World War Adjusted Compensation Act provides in section 202 (c) thereof that in computing the adjusted service credit, no allowance shall be made to a .member of the Students' Army Training Corps, which is only one of the several groups excluded from the benefits of...
Page 7 - Sec. 10. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 of this title, any person who served as an officer of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States during the World War...
Page 7 - Act making eligible for retirement, under certain conditions, officers and former officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of the United States, other than officers of the Regular Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, who incurred physical disability in line of duty while in the service of the United States during the World War
Page 24 - We, the jury in the aboveentitled cause, find for the plaintiff and award him damages in the sum of twenty-three thousand three hundred and forty dollars ($23,340.00) which he should recover from the defendant.
Page 21 - Army Training Corps (except an enlisted man detailed thereto), Philippine Scout, member of the Philippine Guard, member of the Philippine Constabulary, member of the National Guard of Hawaii, member of the insular force of the Navy, member of the Samoan native guard and band of the Navy, or Indian Scout — in each case for the period of service as such ; (d) Any individual entering the military or naval forces after...
Page 25 - Affairs or someone acting in his name, the claimant shall have ninety days from the date of the mailing of notice of such denial within which to file suit.