Consolidation of Government Agencies for the Benefit of Disabled Ex-service Men: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, First Session, on H.R. 3 |
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administration agencies amendment American Legion applied April 13 Army award believe beneficiaries bill Board for Vocational Bureau of War Chairman CHOLMELEY-JONES civil service committee compensation conclusive presumption condition Congress consolidation contract converted insurance CUMMING DAVIS Department director disabled soldiers discharge disease district doctors ELLIOTT entitled ex-service examination fact Federal Board gentlemen hospital facilities injury instance Joseph Kohnes LAMKIN lapse legislation matter ment mental months Navy NEWTON paid patients payment permanently and totally person personnel premiums Public Health Service question railroad RAYBURN regional offices regulations reinstatement responsible Risk Bureau Risk Insurance Bureau SALMON Secretary shell shock statement statute of limitations suboffices suggestions SWEET TAYLOR term insurance thing THOMAS tion to-day Treasury treatment tuberculosis United States Public veterans Vocational Education War Risk Insurance war-risk insurance act Washington WINSLOW WOODRUFF words
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Page 174 - ... shall be deemed to have applied for and to have been granted insurance, payable to such person during his life in monthly installments of $25 each.
Page 152 - Corps, whether regularly mustered or not, disabled by reason of any wound or injury received, or disease contracted, while in the service of the United States and in the line of duty.
Page 152 - That no compensation shall be payable for death or disability which does not occur prior to or within one year after discharge...
Page 133 - In addition to the compensation above provided, the injured person shall be furnished by the United States such reasonable governmental medical, surgical, and hospital services and with such supplies, including artificial limbs, trusses, and similar appliances, as the director may determine to be useful and reasonably necessary...
Page 174 - ... if and while they survive him: Provided, however, That not more than two hundred and forty of such monthly installments, including those received by such person during his total and permanent disability, shall be so paid; and in that event the amount of the monthly installments shall be apportioned between them as may be provided by regulations.
Page 154 - Provided, That the applicant's disability is the result of an injury or disease or of an aggravation thereof suffered or contracted in the active military or naval service during the World War...
Page 173 - Any person who between the 6th day of April, 1917, and the llth day of November, 1918, 'applied for enlistment or enrollment in the military or naval forces, and who was accepted provisionally and directed or ordered to a camp, post, station, or other place for final acceptance into such service, shall be deemed to have the same status as an inducted man not...
Page 150 - Act, and for that purpose is hereby authorized to utilize the now existing or future facilities of the United States Public Health Service, the War Department, the Navy Department, the Interior Department, the National...
Page 151 - July 2, 1921, is discharged or resigns, shall be conclusively held and taken to have been in sound condition when examined, accepted, and enrolled for service...
Page 173 - Guard, but before being accepted and enrolled for active service, the person died or became disabled as a result of disease contracted or injury suffered in the line of duty and not due to his own willful misconduct involving moral turpitude, or as a result of the aggravation, in the line of duty and not because of his own willful misconduct...