Work Relief and Relief for Fiscal Year 1941: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, Making Appropriation for Work Relief and Relief, Fiscal Year 1941

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Page 37 - Without regard to the civil-service laws or the Classification Act of 1923...
Page 875 - Palaces, baronial castles, great halls, stately mansions, do not make a nation. The nation in every country dwells in the cottage; and unless the light of your constitution can shine there, unless the beauty of your legislation and the excellence of your statesmanship are impressed there on the feelings and condition of the people, rely upon it you have yet to learn the duties of government.
Page 37 - ... such expenditures (including expenditures for personal services and rent at the seat of government and elsewhere, for law books...
Page 458 - No estimate or request for an appropriation and no request for an increase in an item of any such estimate or request, and no recommendation as to how the revenue needs of the Government should be met, shall be submitted to Congress or any committee thereof by any officer or employee of any department or establishment, unless at the request of either House of Congress.
Page 68 - To assist the President in dealing with special problems requiring the clearance of information between the Federal Government and state and local governments and private institutions.
Page 37 - Corporation shall be entitled to the free use of the United States mails in the same manner as the executive departments of the Government.
Page 174 - Rico to persons eligible to receive the benefits of this title to enable such persons to acquire family-size farms. "(b) (1) Except with respect to veterans qualified under subsection (b) (2) of this section, only farm tenants, farm laborers, sharecroppers, and other individuals who obtain, or who recently obtained, the major portion of their income from farming operations, shall be eligible to receive the benefits of this title.
Page 37 - Education is hereby created, to consist of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor, the United States Commissioner of Education, and three citizens of the United States to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Page 455 - States for old-age assistance, aid to dependent children, and aid to the blind under titles I, IV, and X, respectively, of the Social Security Act.
Page 37 - Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to secure a just and equal distribution thereof among the Indians residing upon any such reservations; and no other appropriation or grant of water by any riparian proprietor shall be authorized or permitted to the damage of any other riparian proprietor.

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