An Abstract of the Report on the Public School System of Memphis, Tennessee, Issues 71-87

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - Memphis (Tenn.) - 43 pages
 

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Page 190 - That there shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word...
Page 54 - Federal Reserve Board composed of the secretary of the Treasury, the comptroller of the currency, and five other members appointed by the president of the United States.
Page 36 - ... banks; is custodian of miscellaneous trust funds; is fiscal agent for paying interest on the public debt and for paying the...
Page 54 - ... the Secretary of the Treasury, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Secretary of Agriculture, who had been designated by the law as the Reserve Bank Organization Committee.
Page 22 - This reflection derives additional strength from the nature of the debt of the United States. It was the price of liberty. The faith of America has been repeatedly pledged for it, and with solemnities that give peculiar force to the obligation.
Page 22 - ... the forms of keeping and rendering public accounts and of making returns; grants warrants for all moneys drawn from the Treasury in pursuance of appropriations made by law, and for the payment of moneys into the Treasury; and annually submits to Congress estimates of the probable revenues and disbursements of the Government.
Page 110 - Commandant of the Marine Corps is responsible to the Secretary of the Navy for the general efficiency and discipline of the corps; makes such distribution of officers and men for duty at the several shore stations as shall appear to him to be most advantageous for the interests of the service; furnishes...
Page 21 - Agriculture in his relations with the State agricultural colleges and experiment stations, under the acts of Congress granting funds to these institutions for agricultural experiment stations and cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics, and in carrying out the provisions of acts of Congress making appropriations to this department for farmers' cooperative demonstration work, investigations relating to agricultural schools, farmers' institutes, and home economics, and the maintenance...

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