Veterans' Legislation: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, on Bills and Resolutions Relative to Veterans' Legislation. March 16, 1937 ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987 - Military pensions - 32 pages
 

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Page 39 - An Act to maintain the credit of the United States Government...
Page 49 - Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin. Wage Region II includes. — Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming. Wage Region III includes. — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia. Certified...
Page 16 - The discharge or dismissal of any person from the military or naval forces on the ground that he is guilty of mutiny, treason, spying, or any offense involving moral turpitude, or willful and persistent misconduct...
Page 17 - ... in the form of liens to secure unpaid premiums or loans, or interest on such premiums or loans, or indebtedness arising from overpayments of dividends, refunds, loans? or other insurance benefits. (c) Notwithstanding subsection (a), payments of benefits under laws administered by the Veterans...
Page 17 - Not later than July 2, 1926, all term insurance held by persons who were in the military service after April 6, 1917, shall be converted, without medical examination, into such form or forms of insurance as may be prescribed by regulations and as the insured may request. Regulations shall provide for the right to convert into ordinary life, twenty-payment life, endowment maturing at age sixty-two...
Page 12 - ... properly rated : Provided, That such person entered active service between April 6. 1917, and November 11, 1918: Provided further, That the disease or injury or aggravation of the disease or injury directly resulted from the performance of military or naval duty and that the causative factor therefor is shown to have arisen out of the performance of duty during such service.
Page 24 - Act is made affective as of July 3, 1930, and shall apply to all suits now pending against the United States under the provisions of section 19, World War Veterans...
Page 15 - If he has no wife but one child living, $40, with $10 for each additional child up to two. (g) If he has a widowed mother dependent on him for support, then, in addition to the above amounts, $10. To an injured person who is totally disabled and in addition so helpless as to be in constant need of a nurse or attendant, such additional sum shall be paid, but not exceeding $20 per month, as the director may deem reasonable...
Page 11 - That, notwithstanding the provisions of any law of the United States, any person who served as an officer of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States during the World War...

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