Extension of the Draft and Bills Related to the Voluntary Force Concept and Authorization of Strength Levels: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session ... |
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Page 626 - ... to the court may seem proper. The Secretary may modify his findings as to the facts, or make new findings, by reason of the additional evidence, so taken, and he shall file such modified or new findings, and his...
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Page 18 - The President is authorized from time to time, whether or not a state of war exists, to select and induct into the...
Page 625 - In a case of actual controversy as to the validity of any order under section 103, any person who will be adversely affected by such order when it is effective may at any time prior to the sixtieth day after such order is issued file a petition with the United States court of appeals for the circuit wherein such person resides or has his principal place of business, for a judicial review of such order.
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Page 694 - All requests to purchase major defense equipment are reviewed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Page 787 - In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Page 488 - Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
Page 89 - Reserve, instead of draftees, will be the initial and primary source for augmentation of the active- forces in any future emergency requiring a rapid and substantial expansion of the active forces.