Independent Offices Appropriation Bill for 1944: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, First Session, on the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill for 1944 |
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... staff agency and not an operating agency . That is the same dis- tinction that is made between the Army General Staff and the line commands . It is our job to make proposals or plans for the elected representatives of the people to use ...
... staff agency and not an operating agency . That is the same dis- tinction that is made between the Army General Staff and the line commands . It is our job to make proposals or plans for the elected representatives of the people to use ...
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... staff " as contrasted to " line " activities may have clarified that picture . For instance , the Bureau of the Budget is also a staff agency . It brings together the Budget proposals prepared by the Budget officers of every Federal ...
... staff " as contrasted to " line " activities may have clarified that picture . For instance , the Bureau of the Budget is also a staff agency . It brings together the Budget proposals prepared by the Budget officers of every Federal ...
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... staff , and field contacts which are already established . For orderly administration and budget controls , the Board would prefer to rely on the regular appropriation procedures rather than to be dependent upon special allotments for ...
... staff , and field contacts which are already established . For orderly administration and budget controls , the Board would prefer to rely on the regular appropriation procedures rather than to be dependent upon special allotments for ...
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... staff in the last 12 years has been reduced from more than 900 to less than 200 persons . Our key technicians and much of our staff are crowded with war work . They are saving the Nation far more than the appropriation here under con ...
... staff in the last 12 years has been reduced from more than 900 to less than 200 persons . Our key technicians and much of our staff are crowded with war work . They are saving the Nation far more than the appropriation here under con ...
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... staff , and ( 2 ) that limited staff has been called on to respond to special assignments . These field reports and field checked records are available for use - and are used and supplemented by use of the " money factor " -in making ...
... staff , and ( 2 ) that limited staff has been called on to respond to special assignments . These field reports and field checked records are available for use - and are used and supplemented by use of the " money factor " -in making ...
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activities additional Administration Admiral LAND agencies American amount appropriation approved approximately Army assistance Authority BAITY basis Budget Bureau Chairman Commission's committee completed Congress connection construction contracts Corporation cost DIRKSEN Division economic rent electric emergency employees Engineering equipment estimate for 1944 expenditures facilities Federal Power Act Federal Power Commission field Finance fiscal year 1944 FITZPATRICK funds Government highway IHLDER increase industry investigations involved June 30 justification lend-lease LILIENTHAL Maritime Commission materials ment national defense necessary Office operation overtime payments percent personnel planning plant President printing and binding Production Board projects Public Works Administration purchase records reimbursements requested securities shipbuilding ships South Portland staff STARNES statement supply Tenn Tennessee Valley Authority tion trade United utilities vessels veterans War Production Board War Shipping Administration Waterman WIGGLESWORTH WOODRUM
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Page 624 - ... for the purpose of manufacturing nitrates, explosives, or munitions of war, or for any other purpose involving the safety of the United States...
Page 276 - All claims and demands whatever by the Government of the United States or against it, and all accounts whatever in which the Government of the United States is concerned, either as debtor or creditor, shall be settled and adjusted in the General Accounting Office.
Page 737 - Whenever the President by proclamation or Executive order declares a national emergency to exist by reason of actual or threatened war, insurrection, or invasion, or disturbance or threatened disturbance of the international relations of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury may make, subject to the approval of the President, rules and regulations governing the anchorage and movement of any vessel, foreign or domestic, in the territorial waters of the United States, may inspect such vessel...
Page 280 - States representatives and other personnel in going to and returning from their post of duty; allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930...
Page 738 - That when the United States is at war or during any national emergency, the existence of which is declared by proclamation of the President...
Page 98 - Provided, That Joint Board members may use Government transportation requests when traveling in connection with their duties as Joint Board members.
Page 620 - The Commission shall have power to perform any and all acts, and to prescribe, issue, make, amend, and rescind such orders, rules, and regulations as it may find necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Page 123 - Standards, together with six additional persons who are "acquainted with the needs of aeronautical science, either civil or military, or skilled in aeronautical engineering or its allied sciences.
Page 620 - ... (b) All hearings, investigations, and proceedings under this Act shall be governed by rules of practice and procedure to be adopted by the Commission, and in the conduct thereof the technical rules of evidence need not be applied.
Page 202 - The faith of the United States is pledged that ... the United States will provide such funds as may be necessary for the upkeep of the National Gallery of Art and the administrative expenses and costs of operation thereof, including the protection and care of works of art acquired by the Board, so that the National Gallery of Art shall be at all times properly maintained and the works of art contained therein shall be exhibited regularly to the general public free of charge.