Emergency Relief Appropriation: Hearings Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on H.J.Res. 117, a Joint Resolution Making Appropriations for Relief Purposes ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935 - 144 pages |
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$50 a month Admiral allocated allotments amount appropriation approved authority average BELL bill building carry Carter Glass CHAIRMAN Civilian Conservation Corps classes of projects clause committee Congress construction contract contractor cost Department direct relief discretion dole relief economic maladjustment emergency agencies employed employment engineers established estimate Executive Order expended expenditure Federal Government FLENTGE funds gasoline going grade crossings grant HELMERS HESTER highway HOPKINS HUSHING instance joint resolution mean ment million National Resources Board necessary non-Federal projects organization percent percentage personnel persons President prevailing rate private industry Public Roads Public Works Administration purpose question referred relief rolls rivers and harbors Secretary ICKES self-liquidating Senator ADAMS Senator BANKHEAD Senator BYRNES Senator CAREY Senator COOLIDGE Senator DICKINSON Senator HALE Senator HAYDEN Senator MCCARRAN Senator O'MAHONEY Senator STEIWER Senator TOWNSEND statement tion Treasury unemployed
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Page 6 - Administrator is authorized to acquire, by purchase or by the power of eminent domain, any real property or any interest therein and improve, develop, grant, sell, lease (with or without the privilege of purchasing), or otherwise dispose of any such property or interest therein.
Page 56 - It is my thought that with the exception of certain of the normal public building operations of the Government, all emergency public works shall be united in a single new and greatly enlarged plan. With the establishment of this new system we can supersede the Federal Emergency Relief Administration with a coordinated authority which will be charged with the orderly liquidation of our present relief activities and the substitution of a national chart for the giving of work.
Page 33 - An Act for the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes", approved March 31, 1933, and for each and every object thereof, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the President...
Page 74 - These documents constitute a remarkable foundation for what we hope will be a permanent policy of orderly development in every part of the United States. It is a large subject, but it is a great and inspiring subject. May I commend to each and every one of you who constitute the Congress of the United States a careful reading of these reports.
Page 81 - ... in the national parks and national forests, and such other work on the public domain, National and State, and Government reservations incidental to or necessary in connection with any projects of the character enumerated...
Page 74 - to prepare and present to the President a program and plan of procedure dealing with the physical, social, governmental, and economic aspects of public policies for the development and use of land, water, and other national resources and such related subjects as may from time to time be referred to the Board by the President.
Page 2 - That in order to protect and to promote the' general welfare, by (1) providing relief from the hardships attributable to widespread unemployment and conditions resulting therefrom, (2) relieving economic maladjustments, (3) alleviating distress, and/or (4) improving living and working conditions...
Page 6 - Compensation on emergency public projects should be in the form of security payments which should be larger than the amount now received as a relief dole, but at the same time not so large as to encourage the rejection of opportunities for private employment or the leaving of private employment to engage in Government work.
Page 84 - The President is authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out this joint resolution, and any willful violation of any such rule or regulation shall be punishable by fine of not to exceed $1,000.
Page 110 - State and local funds for relief extended under the general relief program under all special programs, and for administration; beginning April 1934 'these figures also include purchases of materials, supplies, and equipment...