Food Production Act, 1919: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 11945, an Act to Enable the Secretary of Agriculture to Carry Out, During the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1919, the Purposes of the Act Entitled "An Act to Provide Further for the National Security and Defense by Stimulating Agriculture and Facilitating the Distribution of Agricultural Products," Printed for the Use of the Committee on Agriculture and ForestryU.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 - 357 sider |
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... legislation , and I hope that your committee will be able to take it up in the near future . The bill , as its title indicates , makes provision for the continuation , during the fiscal year 1919 , of the activities authorized by the ...
... legislation , and I hope that your committee will be able to take it up in the near future . The bill , as its title indicates , makes provision for the continuation , during the fiscal year 1919 , of the activities authorized by the ...
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... legislation has provided for calling into the service those who have reached the age of 21 since the selective - service act was passed . It is esti- mated that this will make available for the Army 700,000 or 800,000 more men annually ...
... legislation has provided for calling into the service those who have reached the age of 21 since the selective - service act was passed . It is esti- mated that this will make available for the Army 700,000 or 800,000 more men annually ...
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... legislative policy rather than a de- partment policy . Senator NORRIS . No ; it is a department policy entirely . The President fixed the price of wheat on the advice of your experts , I suppose ? Senator SMITH of South Carolina ...
... legislative policy rather than a de- partment policy . Senator NORRIS . No ; it is a department policy entirely . The President fixed the price of wheat on the advice of your experts , I suppose ? Senator SMITH of South Carolina ...
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... legislation that may be necessary . Would not that be a good thing ? Dr. ALSBERG . It would be an excellent thing . Senator NORRIS . I am personally acquainted with a man over here at Edgewood who is engaged in cutting down trees . He ...
... legislation that may be necessary . Would not that be a good thing ? Dr. ALSBERG . It would be an excellent thing . Senator NORRIS . I am personally acquainted with a man over here at Edgewood who is engaged in cutting down trees . He ...
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... LEGISLATIVE SUPER- INTENDENT , ANTI - SALOON LEAGUE OF AMERICA , WASHING- TON , D. C. Senator SMITH of South ... legislation which Congress has been constantly passing since our advent into the war that would not be at all upheld ...
... LEGISLATIVE SUPER- INTENDENT , ANTI - SALOON LEAGUE OF AMERICA , WASHING- TON , D. C. Senator SMITH of South ... legislation which Congress has been constantly passing since our advent into the war that would not be at all upheld ...
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Side 9 - An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States...
Side 5 - President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor...
Side 3 - An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.
Side 250 - Democracy can not be established by patches upon an autocratic system. The foundations of civilized intercourse between individuals must be organized upon principles of democracy and scientific principles of human welfare. Then a national structure can be perfected in harmony with humanitarian idealism — a structure that will stand the tests of the necessities of peace or war.
Side 7 - States in the transmission of the mail ; artificers and workmen employed in the armories, arsenals, and navy yards of the United States; pilots; mariners actually employed in the sea service of any citizen or merchant within the United States...
Side 312 - The power which the states have of prohibiting such use by individuals of their property, as will be prejudicial to the health, the morals, or the safety of the public, is not, and, consistently with the existence and safety of organized society, cannot be, burdened with the condition that the state must compensate such individual owners for pecuniary losses they may sustain, by reason of their not being permitted, by a noxious use of their property, to inflict injury upon the community.
Side 250 - ... war basis, they should be made in accord with plans agreed upon by representatives of the government and those engaged and employed in the industry. We recognize that in war, in certain employments requiring high skill, it is necessary to retain in industrial service the workers specially fitted therefor. In any eventuality when women may be employed, we insist that equal pay for equal work shall prevail without regard to sex.
Side 104 - ... it is not indispensable to the existence of any power claimed for the Federal government that it can be found specified in the words of the Constitution, or clearly and directly traceable to some one of the specified powers. Its existence may be deduced fairly from more than one of the substantive powers expressly defined, or from them all combined. It is allowable to group together any number of them and infer from them all that the power claimed has been conferred.
Side 250 - ... of the European conflict, we, with these Ideals of liberty and justice herein declared, as the indispensable basis for national policies, offer our services to our country in every field of activity to defend, safeguard and preserve the Republic of the United States of America against its enemies whomsoever they may be, and we call upon our fellow workers and fellow citizens in the holy name of Labor, Justice, Freedom and Humanity to devotedly and patriotically give like service.
Side 250 - We, the officers of the National and International Trade Unions of America in national conference assembled in the capital of our nation, hereby pledge ourselves in peace or in war, in stress or in storm, to stand unreservedly by the standards of liberty and the safety and preservation of the institutions and ideals of our Republic.