Charity Disclosure Legislation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Postal Personnel and Modernization of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 41 ... March 24, 29, and 30, 1977U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 217 pages |
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accepted accounting principles accounting standards activities affiliates agencies Amendment American Heart Association annual report Attorney audit believe bill Board broadcast campaigns Chairman charitable contributions charitable organizations charitable purposes charitable solicitation church bodies concern congregations CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contributions by mail contributors Council Counsel director disclosure requirement dollars donors educational effective enforcement exemption financial disclosure financial information financial statements fiscal fraud fundraising costs groups hospitals individual institutions interest Internal Revenue Service legislation legitimate LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LIBRARY THE LIBRARY Lung Association Lutheran Church membership organization ment National Kidney Foundation nonprofit organizations operations organiza percent percentage Philanthropy Postal Service preemption problems programs proposed protect Public Broadcasting Service public disclosure raising costs regulatory religious organizations request Save the Children statute subcommittee TAYLOR television testimony Thank tion U.S. Postal Service United vice president WILSON York
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Page 165 - The wrong of these things, as I see it, is not in the money the victims part with half so much as in the mental and spiritual poison they get. But that is precisely the thing the Constitution put beyond the reach of the prosecutor, for the price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.
Page 120 - Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution or school system...
Page 72 - Affairs is composed of representatives from eight national cooperating Baptist conventions and conferences in the United States. They are: American Baptist Churches in the USA; Baptist General Conference; National Baptist Convention of America; National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.; North American Baptist Conference; Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.; Seventh Day Baptist General Conference; and Southern Baptist Convention. These groups have a current membership of nearly 27 million.
Page 140 - Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises...
Page 99 - ... in the English language in conspicuous and legible type in contrast by typography, layout, or color with other printed matter on the label. (q)(l) The term "banned hazardous substance...
Page 144 - In analyzing either alternative the questions are whether the involvement is excessive, and whether it is a continuing one calling for official and continuing surveillance leading to an impermissible degree of entanglement.
Page 69 - The general regulation, in the public interest, of solicitation, which does not involve any religious test and does not unreasonably obstruct or delay the collection of funds, is not open to any constitutional objection, even though the collection be for a religious purpose. Such regulation would not constitute a prohibited previous restraint on the free exercise of religion or interpose an inadmissible obstacle to its exercise.
Page 11 - The members of the advisory committee shall serve without compensation but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties hereunder.
Page 140 - Upon evidence satisfactory to the Postal Service that any person is engaged in conducting a scheme or device for obtaining money or property through the mail by means of false representations...
Page 165 - The chief wrong which false prophets do to their following is not financial. The collections aggregate a tempting total, but individual payments are not ruinous. I doubt if the vigilance of the law is equal to making money stick by over-credulous people. But the real harm is on the mental and spiritual plane. There are those who hunger and thirst after higher values which they feel wanting in their humdrum lives. They live in mental confusion or moral anarchy and seek vaguely for truth and beauty...