District of Columbia Appropriation Bill for 1940: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropraitons, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5610, an Act Making Appropriations for the Government of the District of Columbia and Other Activities Chargeable in Whole Or in Part Against the Revenues of Such District for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1940, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - 907 pages |
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Page 399 - The details of this supplemental estimate of appropriation, the necessity therefor, and the reasons for its transmission at this time, are set forth in the letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, transmitted herewith, with whose comments and observations thereon I concur. Respectfully, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
Page 463 - Fourth, the inclusion of the whole recreational system in the schools is not in accord with the recommendation of the educational policies commission of the National Education Association and the American Association of School Administrators, which...
Page 421 - The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $60,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939 for the preparation of plans and specifications for a library building to be constructed on square 491 in the District of Columbia is continued available for the same purpose during the fiscal year 1940.
Page 30 - State funds for surveys, plans, engineering, and economic investigations of projects for future construction...
Page 25 - With the larger nest-builders, a month or less elapses from the laying of the egg to the emergence of the adult. Several generations may be reared in the same cell. The largest of the American social wasps is the so-called white-faced hornet...
Page 29 - Theater programs, parades, regattas, celebrations, dedications, community dancing, etc. GENERAL EXPENSES Page 68, line 5, change "$388,500" to "$395,250." The 1940 estimate as approved by the Bureau of the Budget allowed an increase of $6,750 for additional temporary per diem laborers in the maitnenance, care, and improvement of the public parks in the District of Columbia under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. As a result of the great increase in park acreage, the enormous amount of...
Page 454 - Senator HOLMAN. I am not disputing the wisdom of doing that, but the fact is that you have exclusive use of the streets, and you ought to pay for it. Senator BURKE. Well, in 99 percent of the places the automobiles use the paving between the street car tracks just as well as any other place. Senator HOLMAN. Yes ; but here they are diverted at certain places. Senator BURKE. That is only on the ground of safety for the people being loaded. I do not think there is any complaint against the streetcar...
Page 401 - The foregoing estimate of appropriation is required to meet a contingency which has arisen since the transmission of the Budget for the fiscal year 1942, and approval is recommended.
Page 407 - Provided further, That the average of the salaries paid librarians in the public schools shall not exceed the average of the salaries paid employees performing the same grade of work in the Free Public Library.