Merchant Marine Act, 1935: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 2582, a Bill to Develop a Strong American Merchant Marine, to Promote the Commerce of the United States, to Aid National Defense, and for Other Purposes ...United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935 - Maritime law |
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... building new ships for foreign trade . has , in addition , appropriated large annual sums under the guise of payments for ocean - mail contracts . It This lending of money for shipbuilding has in practice been a failure . Few ships have ...
... building new ships for foreign trade . has , in addition , appropriated large annual sums under the guise of payments for ocean - mail contracts . It This lending of money for shipbuilding has in practice been a failure . Few ships have ...
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... building of modern shipping facilities is a manifestation of wholly desirable and wholesome national ambition . In such free competition the American people want us to be properly represented . The American people want to use American ...
... building of modern shipping facilities is a manifestation of wholly desirable and wholesome national ambition . In such free competition the American people want us to be properly represented . The American people want to use American ...
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... building of a new ship . Now , it strikes me , off - hand , that the Authority , which has to determine how much money the Government shall put either toward the building of a ship or how much money it shall put in , in the way of a ...
... building of a new ship . Now , it strikes me , off - hand , that the Authority , which has to determine how much money the Government shall put either toward the building of a ship or how much money it shall put in , in the way of a ...
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... building new ships . Official reports of 1934 indicate that of total guaranties undertaken by the British Government ... build ships suitable for auxiliary service in time of war . Accounts for a recent year show appropria- tions of only ...
... building new ships . Official reports of 1934 indicate that of total guaranties undertaken by the British Government ... build ships suitable for auxiliary service in time of war . Accounts for a recent year show appropria- tions of only ...
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... building naval airships in this country with a view to ulti- mately developing similar ships for commercial purposes . Before any practical results can be obtained we are confronted with the lack of basic legislation dealing with the ...
... building naval airships in this country with a view to ulti- mately developing similar ships for commercial purposes . Before any practical results can be obtained we are confronted with the lack of basic legislation dealing with the ...
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Page 96 - ... capable of serving as a naval and military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency...
Page 345 - Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require an individual employee to render labor or service without his consent, nor shall anything in this Act be construed to make the quitting of his labor by an individual employee an illegal act; nor shall any court issue any process to compel the performance by an individual employee of such labor or service, without his consent...
Page 287 - That any seaman who shall suffer personal injury in the course of his employment may, at his election, maintain an action for damages at law, with the right of trial by jury, and in such action all statutes of the United States modifying or extending the common-law right or remedy in cases of personal injury to railway employees shall apply...
Page 1 - ... operated under the United States flag by citizens of the United States insofar as may be practicable, and (d) composed of the best-equipped, safest, and most suitable types of vessels, constructed in the United States and manned with a trained and efficient citizen personnel. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to foster the development and encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine.
Page 280 - This original and supreme will organizes the government. and assigns to different departments their respective powers. It may either stop here, or establish certain limits not to be transcended by those departments.
Page 344 - Employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. The majority of any craft or class of employees shall have the right to determine who shall be the representative of the craft or class for the purposes of this act.
Page 285 - Our Constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is, consequently to be regarded in the courts of justice, as equivalent to an act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision.
Page 415 - Such attendance of witnesses, and the production of such documentary evidence, may be required from any place in the United States, at any designated place of hearing.
Page 345 - ... upon the request of the Commission, it shall be the duty of any district attorney of the United States to whom the Commission may apply to institute in the proper court and to prosecute under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States...
Page 192 - ... largely destroyed the purchasing power of farmers for industrial products, has broken down the orderly exchange of commodities, and has seriously impaired the agricultural assets supporting the national credit structure, it is hereby declared that these conditions in the basic industry of agriculture have affected transactions in agricultural commodities with a national public interest, have burdened and obstructed the normal currents of commerce in such commodities, and render imperative the...