Department of Justice Appropriation Bill for 1938: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 - 412 pages

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Page 311 - The justification statements on this item appear on pages 71 and 72, which will be made a part of the record at this point. (The statements referred to are as follows...
Page 126 - Mr. McMiLLAN. 1 think that would be well to include for the 6 months of the present fiscal year, because, as I understand it, this is the first year this item has been carried for you. Mr. McCLURE. Yes. Mr. McMiLLAN. Perhaps you have available a record of your examinations made for the past 6 months. I wish you would insert in the record a table showing the number of examinations you have made, the number of delinquencies that have been revealed as the result of these examinations, as well as the...
Page 51 - The next item is that of printing and binding for the Department of Justice and the Courts of the United States, $327,000, against an appropriation for the present fiscal year of $298,000.
Page 345 - Preliminary Class Specifications of Positions in the Field Service, Field Survey Division of the Personnel Classification Board.2 (PCB Form no.
Page 99 - The number of criminal cases is shown to be almost twice as large as during the preceding fiscal year, yet the number of cases pending at the end of the fiscal year 1914-15 was only 377, as compared with 579 at the end of the preceding fiscal year.
Page 364 - We have been in the position that we had to deny many of the field offices additional equipment for several years. They have requested adding machines, accounting machines, and dictating equipment — • — Mr. McMiLLAN. When you say "field offices", you mean district attorney offices? Mr. ANDRETTA. No; I mean marshals and clerks of the court and, of course, the judges' offices. The United States marshals, of course, have had an unprecedented amount of work, particularly in the service of process...
Page 74 - Jane Gookin" was engraved, also by his order, and on the signet ring the Bandon crest. The witness deposed that it was by casually reading a report of the proceedings of the first day's trial in the "Times" newspaper that he had been led to communicate with the defense at the last trial. . . . The jury after a few minutes...
Page 374 - Persons newly received from courts on probation during the year, by judicial district and sex: 1935-36 i No full-times alarles Federal probation officer.
Page 90 - ... something over $45,000. Mr. McMiLLAN. That is true of your entire division. Mr. CARR. I told the committee yesterday that the receipts from Mrs. Shipley's division would go more than halfway toward supporting the entire department. STATEMENT OF FEES AND DISBURSEMENTS Mr. McMiLLAN. Mrs. Shipley, I think it would be well for you to insert in the record the total amount of expenditures for your division as well as the revenues which you derive. Mrs. SHIPLEY. I shall be glad to do that. (A table...
Page 72 - ... was then tried. Our agents testified. He was found guilty. That shows the aid which can be rendered by a technical laboratory in some murder cases. I have here a memorandum explaining the work of the technical laboratory in detail which I believe will be of interest to the committee. THE...

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