Legislative Establishment Appropriation Bill for 1938: Hearings Before the Subcommittee ... Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session on the Legislative Establishment Appropriation Bill for 1938

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Page 200 - States and the political subdivisions thereof in which there shall be located a veterans' employment service. The bureau shall also assist in co-ordinating the public employment offices throughout the country and in increasing their usefulness by developing and prescribing minimum standards of efficiency, assisting them in meeting problems peculiar to their localities, promoting uniformity in their administrative and statistical procedure, furnishing and publishing information as to opportunities...
Page 203 - It shall be the province and duty of the bureau to promote and develop a national system of employment offices for men, women, and juniors who are legally qualified to engage in gainful occupations, including employment counseling and placement services for handicapped persons, to maintain a veterans...
Page 130 - Bureau shall investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 152 - Sixth. The Secretary of the Senate. Seventh. The Clerk of the House of Representatives. Eighth. The Chaplains of the two Houses of Congress. Ninth. The Solicitor of the Treasury. Tenth. The financial agent of the Joint Committee on the Library. Eleventh. The Smithsonian Institution, through its Secretary. Twelfth. Any person, when in the District of Columbia, who has been President.
Page 252 - On the active shift, which is from 8 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, there will be a principal mechanic, the senior mechanic, and one assistant engineer and two helpers.
Page 130 - For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $2,500.
Page 123 - Draft convention fixing the minimum age for the admission of young persons to employment as trimmers or stokers.
Page 160 - Congress, has charge of the structural and mechanical care of the United States Capitol Building, together with arrangements in cooperation with the proper authorities, for ceremonies and ceremonials held in the building and on the grounds; is responsible for the care, maintenance, and improvement of the Capitol Grounds...
Page 53 - Amounts appropriated for the expenses of the joint committee shall be disbursed one-half by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House.
Page 66 - Postmaster, $5,000; assistant postmaster, $2,880; registry and money-order clerk, $2,100; 41 messengers, at $1,740 each; substitute messengers and extra services of regular employees, when required, at the rate of not to exceed $145 per month, $1,740; laborer, $1,260; in all, $84,320.

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