Pensions - Regular Establishment. Pensions and Increase Pensions to Veterans, Widows, and Dependents of Veterans of the Regular Establishment. Hearings....on H.R. 8948 (Also S. 3503)....June 8, 1938. (75-3).

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Page 92 - II, (a) to (j). shall be increased by $15 per month. " '(1) 1^ the disabled person, as the result of service-incurred disability, has suffered the anatomical loss or loss of use of both hands, .or of both feet, or of one hand and one foot...
Page 54 - There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded to consider the bill, which had been reported from the Committee on Education and Labor with an amendment, in section 9, page 10, line 24, before the word "and...
Page 55 - The .bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendments were concurred in. The Bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed.
Page 46 - ... an arm at or above the elbow or a leg at or above the knee...
Page 88 - ... line of duty in the military or naval service (except so far as they relate to persons who served prior to the Spanish-American War and to the dependents of such persons, and the retirement of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard...
Page 26 - Navy is authorized to convene a board of not less than three naval officers, one of whom shall be a surgeon, to examine into the condition of the applicant, and to recommend a suitable amount for his relief, and for a specified time...
Page 28 - When a retiring board finds that an officer is incapacitated for active service, and that his incapacity is the result of an incident of service, and such decision is approved by the President, said officer shall be retired from active service and placed on the list of retired officers.
Page 54 - That from and after the approval of this act all persons now on the pension roll, and all persons hereafter granted a pension, who, while in the military or naval service of the United States and in line of duty, shall have lost one hand or one foot, or have been totally disabled in the same...
Page 58 - Where any disabled veteran having neither wife, child, nor dependent parent is being furnished hospital treatment, institutional or domiciliary care by the United States or any political subdivision thereof, the pension, compensation, or emergency officers...
Page 54 - ... per month, and that all persons who, in like manner, shall have lost one hand and one foot, or...

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