War Department Appropriation Bill, 1924: Hearings, Sixty-seventh Congress, Fourth Session H.R. 13793U.S. Government Printing Office, 1923 - 252 pages |
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... month , must be subsisted and held either in lodging - houses at city stations or sent to the posts , and there await the consent of parents . Many of these young men have wandered from home , or they have lost touch with their parents ...
... month , must be subsisted and held either in lodging - houses at city stations or sent to the posts , and there await the consent of parents . Many of these young men have wandered from home , or they have lost touch with their parents ...
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... month to be enlisted . 2,250 men under 21 held 3 days , at $ 1.95 per day for board and lodging and $ 1 each for telegrams__ Estimated only one - half would secure consent , making 1,125 additional men to be enlisted . 1.800 men over 21 ...
... month to be enlisted . 2,250 men under 21 held 3 days , at $ 1.95 per day for board and lodging and $ 1 each for telegrams__ Estimated only one - half would secure consent , making 1,125 additional men to be enlisted . 1.800 men over 21 ...
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... month . The retired pay of the others ranges from $ 33 to $ 70 per month . Most of these officers are married . Some have dependent children . Their physical disabilities , age , and long service in or with the Army cause them to have a ...
... month . The retired pay of the others ranges from $ 33 to $ 70 per month . Most of these officers are married . Some have dependent children . Their physical disabilities , age , and long service in or with the Army cause them to have a ...
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... months in case of necessity . There is about $ 7,000,000 worth of property over there now , stored the best way it can be stored in temporary buildings and hangars and somewhat in open storage . Property will keep over there just as ...
... months in case of necessity . There is about $ 7,000,000 worth of property over there now , stored the best way it can be stored in temporary buildings and hangars and somewhat in open storage . Property will keep over there just as ...
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... months ' period you speak of - a siege ? General WELLS . Yes . Senator HITCHCOCK . It is sufficient ? General WELLS . The reserve supplies are not complete yet , but there is that much on the ground for that purpose . There is that much ...
... months ' period you speak of - a siege ? General WELLS . Yes . Senator HITCHCOCK . It is sufficient ? General WELLS . The reserve supplies are not complete yet , but there is that much on the ground for that purpose . There is that much ...
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Alaska ALIFAS allowed amendment amount arsenal asked bonus Budget estimate building Bureau CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Captain CHAPPELL Captain MACKAY carry cent Chairman Chief of Engineers clerks Colonel BOGGS Colonel HAMMOND Colonel LOCKE Colonel STEESE Colonel WALTON committee Congress construction Corps Area cost Department divisions eliminated employees Engineers enlisted equipment expenses Field Artillery figures fiscal year 1924 FLINT funds Government Hawaiian Islands HEINTZELMAN House bill included increase June 30 LASSITER maintenance matériel ment mileage military National Guard necessary Ohio River Organized Reserves Panama Canal PATRICK posts present Quartermaster quarters question railroad recruiting reduced regiment repair Reserve Corps reserve officers retired river and harbor road salaries Secretary of War Secretary WEEKS Senator HARRIS Senator HITCHCOCK Senator JONES Senator SPENCER Senator WADSWORTH statement submitted supplies TAYLOR tion transportation troops United UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA WALKER War Department
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Page 231 - ... time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant...
Page 181 - ... persons shall be fixed by the President, or by his authority, until such time as Congress may by law regulate the same, but salaries or compensation fixed...
Page 231 - 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...
Page 191 - ... any greater number of persons than are specified in the notes submitted respectively in connection with the estimates for each of said appropriations in the annual book of estimates for said year, nor shall there be paid to any...
Page 17 - An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes," approved June 3, 1916, as amended, be.
Page 180 - Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable, the purchase of artificial limbs or other appliances for persons who were injured in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission or the Panama Canal prior to September 7, 1916...
Page 170 - How much do you intend to expend from the mouth of the Missouri River to the mouth of the Ohio River on the Mississippi ( General TAYLOR.
Page 92 - ... New York, the health officer is not a medical man; he is a doctor of philosophy, and is an admirable officer, who has had one term of office. So the movement is not in any sense a movement by the medical profession or by any particular school in the medical profession. There is one other point that I would like to speak of, and that is in regard to the advisability of having the head of this department a Cabinet officer. We have the feeling, not merely in the medical profession, but in the scientific...
Page 38 - We hope if we get a little growth at intervals that after a while it will spread, but up to the present time we have not been able to find anything that can be placed as cheaply as we think we can get if we continue these experiments.
Page 231 - States while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such...