Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill for 1940: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session on the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill for 1940 |
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additional amount Administration Admiral BYRD Admiral FURLONG Admiral WAESCHE Agriculture allotment ANDRETTA Appropriation Act approved June 21 approximately asking Assistant attorneys authorized balance break-down Budget building Bureau CANNON census Central Valley project CHAIRMAN chinch bugs clerks Coast Guard Commission committee Congress construction contract cotton CREEL deficiency Department District of Columbia Division employees equipment estimate expenditures expenses export Federal fire fiscal year 1940 funds going Government Grade guayule House Document increase January JOHNSON of West July June 21 June 30 land limit of cost LITTELL LUDLOW ment miscellaneous months necessary O'NEAL obligations operation payments percent personal services personnel plant post office present printing and binding Public Public Works Administration purpose record regular requested ROHWER salaries Secretary Senate SNYDER square feet statement TABER tion TOLSON Total transfer Treasury United Washington West Virginia WIGGLESWORTH WOODRUM
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Page 332 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 22 - An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to civil employment," approved June 2, 1920, as amended (USC title 29, ch.
Page 131 - District of any means of enforcing any remedy either at law or in equity for the breach of any of the provisions hereof which it would otherwise have.
Page 105 - We now take up the item for the National Training School for Boys: For care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Public Welfare with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys.
Page 130 - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF RECLAMATION BOULDER CANYON PROJECT CONTRACT FOR DELIVERY OF WATER (1) This contract, made this 15th day of February 1933, pursuant to the act of Congress approved June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, all of which acts are commonly known and referred to as the reclamation law, and particularly pursuant to the act of Congress approved December 21, 1928 (45 Stat.
Page 227 - USC 5) ; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, fiscal year 1940, $8,000, to remain available until June 30, 1941.
Page 133 - Where the operations of this contract extend beyond the current fiscal year, the contract is made contingent upon Congress making the necessary appropriation for expenditures hereunder after such current year shall have expired. In case such appropriation as may be necessary to carry out this contract is not made, the Contractor hereby releases the United States from all liability due to the failure of Congress to make such appropriation.
Page 133 - No Member of or Delegate to Congress or Resident Commissioner shall be admitted to any share or part of this contract or to any benefit that may arise herefrom, but this restriction shall not be construed to extend to this contract if made with a corporation or company for its general benefit.
Page 157 - Dam' on the Colorado River and 'Grand Coulee Dam' on the Columbia River, are hereby authorized and adopted, and all contracts and agreements which have been executed in connection therewith are hereby validated and ratified, and the President, acting through such agents as he may designate, is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain dams, structures, canals, and incidental works necessary to such projects, and in connection therewith to make and enter into any and all necessary contracts...
Page 455 - Justice, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Labor.