Emergency Relief Appropriation: Hearing ... 74th Congress, 1st Session, J. J. Res. 117U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935 - 48 pages |
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500 million Admiral agricultural allocated allotted amount applied labor appropriation authority BACON BELL bill carry Castle County CHAIRMAN Civil Works Administration Civilian Conservation Corps classes of projects Congress contemplated cost debt dike construction direct labor direct relief drawing dole relief Emergency Relief Administration employable employment estimated Federal Emergency Relief fiscal year 1935 Government grade crossings grade-crossing elimination half million industry January 31 joint resolution July June 19 June 30 loans ment obligations OLIVER operation percent President proposed Public Works Administration public-works program question railroads Reconstruction Finance Corporation relief and recovery RELIEF FROM PUBLIC relief program relief purposes relief rolls revetment RIVER AND HARBOR rural electrification rural housing Secretary MORGENTHAU self-liquidating slum areas slum clearance soil erosion specific statement submarginal land Subsistence homestead TABER taxes THURSTON tion TRANSFER OF UNOBLIGATED Treasury unem unemployed unexpended balances unobligated balances WOODRUM
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Page 21 - I am not willing that the vitality of our people be further sapped by the giving of cash, of market baskets, of a few hours of weekly work cutting grass, raking leaves or picking up papers in the public parks. We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed from destitution, but also their self-respect, their self-reliance and courage and determination.
Page 1 - ... the civil service laws, such officers and employees, and to utilize such Federal officers and employees, and, with the consent of the State, such State and local officers and employees, as he may find necessary, to prescribe their authorities, duties, responsibilities, and tenure, and, without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to fix the compensation of any officers and employees so appointed.
Page 9 - No estimate or request for an appropriation and no request for an increase in an item of any such estimate or request and no recommendation as to how the revenue needs of the Government should be met shall be submitted to Congress or any committee thereof by any officer or employee of any department or establishment unless at the request of either House of Congress.
Page 1 - Any purchase made under this paragraph may be made without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (USC, title 41, sec. 5) upon certification by the Commission that such action is necessary in the interest of the common defense and security, or upon a showing that advertising is not reasonably practicable, and partial and advance payments may be made thereunder.
Page 29 - 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 1 - Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1056), as heretofore amended, (amendment to Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, relating to cotton option contracts.) 25.
Page 21 - 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 1 - ... books of reference, directories, periodicals, newspapers and press clippings; travel expenses, including the expense of attendance at meetings when specifically authorized by the Administrator; rental at the seat of Government and elsewhere; purchase, operation and maintenance of passenger-carrying vehicles; printing and binding; and...
Page 2 - In carrying out the provisions of this joint resolution the President is authorized to establish and prescribe the duties and functions of necessary agencies within the Government. SEC. 5. In carrying out the provisions of this joint resolution the President is authorized (within the limits of the appropriation made in section 1) to acquire, by purchase or by the power of eminent...