Educational Finance Act of 1943. Hearings Before a Subcommittee...on S. 637.... Apr. 6-8, 1943 |
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administration agencies Alabama American amount appropriation Arkansas average salary Chairman Commissioner of Education Committee on Education Congress cost of living Dakota DAWSON Doctor educa educational opportunities effort Elbert D elementary and secondary ELLENDER emergency certificates enrollment equalization expenditures fact Federal aid Federal funds Federal Government figures FRIES going high school income increase industries Kentucky Lanham Act legislation legislature Louisiana Mississippi Missouri Montana National Education Association Nebraska Negro North Carolina number of children number of teachers Office of Education paid percent percentage population positions present problem public education public elementary public schools Puerto Rico pupils received record revenue ROZZELLE rural school system secondary schools Senator ELLENDER Senator HILL Senator La Follette Senator WHERRY situation South South Dakota statement teaching Tennessee tion United Utah vocational Washington West Virginia
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Page 60 - Do you favor the creation of a Federal Department of Education with a Secretary in the President's Cabinet?
Page 1 - Board for such prior quarter. (3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Board, the amount so certified.
Page 291 - In the last analysis, the complaint of the plaintiff State is brought to the naked contention that Congress has usurped the reserved powers of the several States by the mere enactment of the statute, though nothing has been done and nothing is to be done without their consent; and it is plain that that question as it is thus presented, is political and not judicial in character, and therefore is not a matter which admits of the exercise of the judicial power.
Page 291 - To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and the general welfare of the United States...
Page 291 - If one taxpayer may champion and litigate such a cause, then every other taxpayer may do the same, not only in respect of the statute here under review but also in respect of every other appropriation act and statute whose administration requires the outlay of public money, and whose validity may be questioned.
Page 4 - State" shall include the several States, the District of Columbia, Alaska, and Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. (B) The term "legislature" means the State or Territorial legislature or other comparable body, except that in the District of Columbia it shall mean the Board of Education, and in American Samoa nnd the Virgin Islands it shall mean the Governor.
Page 259 - Cumulative evidence supports the conclusion that, in the United States as in other countries, the age of individualism and laissez faire in economy and government is closing and that a new age of collectivism is emerging.
Page 123 - No department or agency of the United States shall exercise any supervision or control over any...
Page 260 - A dying laissez faire must be completely destroyed and all of us, including the 'owners,' must be subjected to a large degree of social control. A large section of our discussion group, accepting the conclusions of distinguished students maintain that in our fragile interdependent society the credit agencies, the basic industries, and utilities cannot be centrally planned and operated under private ownership.
Page 291 - States, unequally or otherwise? Certainly there is none, unless it be the burden of taxation, and that falls upon their inhabitants, who are within the taxing power of Congress as well as that of the States where they reside.