Additional Appropriations for Emergency Purposes: Hearing ... Seventy-third Congress, Second Session |
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additional allotment amount appropriation approved asked assistant average BALLOU bill BLANTON Board Bocock BOWERMAN Budget building Bureau Calvert Street Bridge camps CANNON Captain WHITEHURST cents Chain Bridge CHAIRMAN Civil Works Administration clerk Commission Commissioner GOTWALS Commissioner HAZEN committee Conduit Road Congress construction cost court DEMARAY District of Columbia DITTER DUZER ELGEN employees engineer equipment estimate for 1935 expenditures expenses FECHNER Federal fiscal year 1934 FOWLER funds going Government grade High School HOPKINS increase June 30 Junior High maintenance Major BROWN Major DONOVAN Major GOTWALS MARCH 23 ment months municipal operation Park Pennsylvania Avenue Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge percent complete personnel police present projects purchase record reduction repair replacement Road ROBERTS salaries sewer statement Street teachers tion Total traffic truck Tuberculosis Virginia Washington WILSON WYETH
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Page 659 - I can say this for the record — that as soon as you gentlemen in your wisdom have given the Commissioners the benefit of what they ask in order that a study may be made, the Senate of the United States will be found to favor this project. Senator Davis, Senator Capper, and Members on your side of the House have requested Mr. Shinn to prepare a bill which will take the funds out of the Public Treasury. Mr. CANNON. Do you mean the District treasury? Dr. JORDAN. No ; I mean out of the Federal Treasury....
Page 545 - That for the purpose of this act the term " persons disabled " shall be construed to mean any person who, by reason of a physical defect or infirmity, whether congenital or acquired by accident, injury, or disease, is, or may be expected to be, totally or partially incapacitated for remunerative occupation...
Page 170 - In short, this power development of war days leads logically to national planning for a complete river watershed involving many States and the future lives and welfare of millions.
Page 416 - The next item, on page 176, is for contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of the provisions of an act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897, and so forth, $29,183.
Page 644 - Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! this our fathers did for us.
Page 460 - ... that the Federal Government cooperate more effectively with the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia in furnishing relief to their needy and distressed people.
Page 654 - An Act making appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three and for other purposes...
Page 253 - That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of .advertising in newspapers published outside of the District of Columbia, notwithstanding the requirement for such advertising provided by existing law.
Page 314 - The next item is to enable the Commissioners to carry out the provisions of existing law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, dead animals, night soil, and miscellaneous refuse and ashes in the District of Columbia, including inspection, etc.
Page 258 - To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire or storm, and of like character and in all other cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, in the discretion of the Commissioners.