Veterans' Affairs: Hearings Before the Joint Congressional Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Congress of the United States, Seventy-second Congress, Second Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1933 |
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Administrator of Veterans amended American Hospital Association amount annual appropriation approximately Army attorneys average awards beds beneficiaries benefits BULLITT Bureau certificate CHIPERFIELD Civil claim committee Congress contract cost death December 9 dependents disability allowance disability compensation disbursements discharged disease Doctor CARY domiciliary duty Economy League emergency officers enlisted entitled estimated expenditures expenses facilities Federal fiscal year 1932 Government hospitals granted HINES homes injury JOHN MCDUFFIE July June 30 legislation Major WORKMAN ment military service MILLIGAN month Navy neuropsychiatric nonservice nonservice-connected October 31 paid patients payment pension permanent disability premiums present receive record reduced regional offices result retirement pay Richard Evelyn Byrd risk insurance salaries Senator HATFIELD Senator ROBINSON Senator WALSH service connected soldiers Spanish Spanish-American War spinal meningitis statement suffering TABER tion tuberculosis United United States attorneys VICE CHAIRMAN W. D. WORKMAN widows World War veterans
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Page 11 - That the United States shall bear the expenses of administration and the excess mortality and disability cost resulting from the hazards of war. The premium rates shall be the net rates based upon the American Experience Table of Mortality and interest at three and one.half per centum per annum.
Page 253 - ... laborers and mechanics employed by the contractor or any subcontractor on the work the...
Page 203 - America or its duly appointed or authorized officer or officers; to the payment of which, well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
Page 107 - (10) That all hospital facilities under the control and jurisdiction of the bureau shall be available for every honorably discharged veteran of the SpanishAmerican War, the Philippine insurrection, the Boxer rebellion, or the World War suffering from neuropsychiatric or tubercular ailments and diseases, paralysis agitans, encephalitis lethargica, or amoebic dysentery, or the loss of sight of both eyes, regardless...
Page 9 - Home shall not be extended to any soldier in the regular or volunteer service, convicted of felony or other disgraceful or infamous crimes of a civil nature after his admission into the service of the United States ; nor shall...
Page 68 - Philippines, and who are disabled by disease, wounds or otherwise, and who have no adequate means of support, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning their living...
Page 8 - July 2, 1921, is discharged or resigns, shall be conclusively held and taken to have been in sound condition when examined, accepted, and enrolled for service...
Page 71 - Act, and the director deems it necessary and advisable to secure additional Government facilities, he may, within the limits of appropriations made for carrying out the provisions of this paragraph...
Page 93 - For death or disability resulting from personal injury suffered or disease contracted in the military or naval service on or after April 6, 1917, and before July 2, 1921, or...
Page 9 - States who has served, or may serve, honestly and faithfully, twenty years in the same. Second. Every soldier and every discharged soldier, whether regular or volunteer, who has suffered, or may suffer, by reason of disease or wounds incurred in the service and in the line of his duty, rendering him incapable of further military service, if such disability was not occasioned by his own misconduct.