WORDS AND PHRASES-Continued.

"Dispose of" construed as not intending gifts.

108.

"Each half of the calendar year" means each half calendar year,

"Existing," in Trade Agreements Act, means existing at the time a
given trade agreement is concluded. 42.
"Expert." Definitions considered, none approved.

384.

"General supervision" implies more than mere power to advise
and suggest; it includes power to superintend and oversee.
570.

"Government" construed as meaning governor. 212.

"Grant" construed as not intending gifts. 108.

"Immediately" used in connection with removal prescribed for
violation of Hatch Act prevents allowance of leave before
separation from service.

506.

"Indians not taxed"-question for determination by the Congress
when apportioning Representatives. 518.

"Labor dispute" narrowed by statutory definition. 242.

"Laborers and mechanics" includes employees on Government-

"Lease" imports a transfer for value. 107.

"Lease" included within "purchase." 56.
"Limitations" includes "conditions." 70.

"Moral turpitude," crime involving: An act of baseness, vileness,
or depravity-anything done contrary to justice, honesty,
modesty, or good morals. 220.

"Moral turpitude," crime involving: Any criminal act intrinsically
and morally wrong and malum in se, or contrary to justice,
honesty, principle, or good morals. 95.

"Officers and employees of the courts" does not include United
States attorneys and marshals. 115.

"Person within the United States" includes unincorporated
foreign branches of American banks. 400..-

"Printed matter" construed as not including forms mainly blank.

335.

"Purchase" as including voluntary grant. 373.

"Purchase" for nominal consideration.

99.

"Serving sentence" contemplates suspended sentences, etc. 547.
"Shall have been" will be given its grammatical meaning as refer-
ring to an act to be completed in the future unless circumstances
require retroactive effect.

7.

"Special expert." Definitions considered, none approved. 384.
"Sue and be sued" in charter of U. S. Housing Authority may

cover cases sounding in tort. 559.

WORK PROJECTS COMMISSIONER.

Wage requirements. *Emergency Relief Appropriations. 327.
WORK RELIEF, ETC., ACT.

Minimum wages.

The Works Progress Administration should not now depart
from the interpretation heretofore applied in the administra-
tion of the Work Relief and Public Works Appropriation Act
of 1938 that the minimum wage of 25 cents per hour is to be
observed only where that rate has been established "for per-
sons employed by private employers in any occupation" under
the Fair Labor Standards Act and where persons are employed
by the Works Progress Administration "in similar occupations
in the same locality." 266.

WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION.

Filipinos not entitled to preference. *Citizenship. 86.

Minimum wages. *Work Relief, etc., Act.

WORLD'S FAIR COMMISSION.

Executive province, invasion.

266.

*Constitutional Law. 61.
WORLD WAR ADJUSTED COMPENSATION ACT.
Absent without leave, confined to barracks.

The World War Adjusted Compensation Act is purposed
to compensate veterans who rendered active service during the
World War period. A soldier absent without leave and then
confined from Aug. 19, 1916, until after Nov. 11, 1918, is not
entitled to compensation. 139.

Reenlistment, computation of credit.

There is no occasion to disturb the uniform administrative
construction of sec. 202 (d) as inapplicable to immediate
reenlistments. 142.

Construction by the War Department as excluding credit
for service after reenlistments not immediate should be ad-
hered to notwithstanding contrary view prevailing in the
Navy Department. 142.

Semble, sec. 5, act of Aug. 16, 1937, 50 Stat. 661, was not
intended to be applicable to increase compensation authorized
by this act. 142.

YERINGTON, NEVADA.

Building site. *Jurisdiction. 155.

YUCCA FOLIAGE.

License to remove. *Grazing Act. 136.

NOTE.-The asterisk (*) means See, indicating where the opinion is digested, e. g.—

YUCCA FOLIAGE.

License to remove. *Grazing Act. 136.

This means that the opinion is digested herein under "Grazing Act" and that the text of
the opinion appears at page 136.