District of Columbia Appropriation Bill for 1944: Hearings ... 78th Congress, 1st Session1943 - 629 pages |
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accounts additional administrative Alcoholic Beverage Control amount ANDERSON appropriation for 1944 approved asking assistant audit Auditor BALLOU bill Board Bocock break-down BRENNAN budget building Bureau Captain WHITEHURST Chairman clerk COFFEE COGSWELL Commission Commissioners committee Congress cost court Deduct nonrecurring DENT Department District of Columbia DUZER DWORSHAK employees equipment estimate of appropriation expenses Federal fiscal year 1944 FOWLER going Government hospital Increases requested inspectors items not required JORDAN June 30 JUSTIFICATION OF ESTIMATE Lanham Act license LODGE MAHON maintenance MARCH 25 MASON ment Miss HERBERT months municipal NORRELL operation Park percent personal services personnel PILKERTON Police positions purchase Recorder of Deeds recreation Regular appropriation rent repairs requested for 1944 required in 1944 revenue RUHLAND sewer statement STEFAN supplies tion Total estimate tuberculosis United States Capitol Washington Washington Aqueduct WEAVER Within-grade promotions XANTEN
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Page 570 - I represent the Recreation Division of the Council of Social Agencies of the District of Columbia and vicinity. The Council of Social Agencies is a volunteer federation of public and private social agencies in Washington, and the Recreation Division, of which I am the paid secretary, is a committee in the council through which the recreation agencies in this city work. Membership in that division consists of both paid executives and lay board members of those agencies, plus a group of interested...
Page 458 - Act, 1942, approved April 28, 1942 (56 Stat. 226, 245), as amended by section 701 of the Revenue Act of 1943, enacted February 25, 1944 (58 Stat. 26, 78) ), provides in part : This section shall apply only with respect to profits derived from contracts with the Departments and subcontracts which are attributable to performance prior...
Page 535 - Hereafter all repairs and improvements made to said hospital buildings and grounds shall be made under the direction and supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, under estimates submitted to Congress.
Page 456 - Funds allocated or appropriated for expenditure within the District of Columbia for carrying out the provisions of section 4 of the Capper-Cramton Act are as follows : Allocated from the appropriation acts of July 3, 1930, and Feb.
Page 629 - The judges are to be nominated by the President, and appointed by him, with the advice and consent of the Senate. This shows that the judges cannot exist without the President and Senate. I have already shown that the President and Senate cannot exist without the existence of the State Legislatures. Have I misstated any thing? Is not the evidence indisputable that the State Governments will be preeerved...
Page 10 - It would cut the public debt down to $4,832,504. Mr. MAHON. Will you insert those figures in the record as to the debt? Mr. FOWLER. Yes, sir. These figures are compiled, and we will be glad to submit them. WAR PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS However, I would like to call attention to the item for war work projects, a statement of the allotments as of March 9, 1943, which you should also consider in connection with the debt item. When we appeared before the committee last year we were rather enthusiastic and...
Page 629 - MEMBERS OF THE BOARD SERVE WITHOUT COMPENSATION Mr. COFFEE. There are a few questions that I would like to ask you at this time before we have any other testimony. All members of the Board of Education serve without compensation; is that correct? Mr. HAYCOCK. They do, Mr. Chairman. COMPENSATION AND EXPERIENCE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Mr.
Page 629 - An act to provide compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain employments in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Page 462 - This appropriation is necessary in order that the Commission may discharge the duties placed upon it by Congress. The expenses of the Commission chargeable to city planning and development are paid out of this appropriation. The appropriation of $55,050 requested for 1944 represents an increase of...
Page 629 - Section 4 of the act approved May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), authorizes an appropriation of $16,000,000 for the acquisition of land within the District of Columbia for park, parkway, and playground purposes by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission.