Nomination of Ebert K. Burlew: Hearings Before the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session, on the Nomination of Ebert K. Burlew to be First Assistant Secretary of the Interior

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938 - 616 pages
 

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Page 282 - ... such expenditures (including expenditures for personal services and rent at the seat of government and elsewhere, for law books...
Page 275 - All purchases and contracts for supplies or services, in any of the Departments of the Government, except for personal services, shall be made by advertising a sufficient time previously for proposals respecting the same, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the articles, or performance of the service.
Page 518 - Act is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability thereof to any person, circumstance, commodity, or class of transactions with respect to any commodity...
Page 388 - Whoever corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication...
Page 520 - Whenever it shall appear to the Commission that any person is engaged or about to engage in any acts or practices which constitute or will constitute a violation...
Page 178 - That preference shall be given to owners, homesteaders, lessees, or other lawful occupants of contiguous lands to the extent necessary to permit proper use of such contiguous lands...
Page 141 - An Act for the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes...
Page 103 - Will you please raise your right hand and be sworn ? Do you solemnly swear that you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God ? Miss BROWN.
Page 177 - ... acres or less, the owners, homesteaders, lessees, or other lawful occupants of lands contiguous thereto or cornering thereon shall have a preference right to lease the whole of such tract...
Page 416 - ... shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 795.)" This document, which was classified CONFIDENTIAL, was addressed to Mr.

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