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Page 29 - I do not know that I can add anything to what has been already said in the text of the Lecture on this point.
Page 1 - An act to provide for the classification of civilian positions within the District of Columbia and in the field services" Insert : " And to extend such salary rates to the field services.
Page 23 - ... laws, such officers and employees, and to utilize such Federal officers and employees, and, with the consent of the State, such State and local officers and employees, as he may find necessary, to prescribe their authorities, duties, responsibilities, and tenure, and, without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to fix the compensation of any officers and employees so appointed.
Page 7 - The details of this estimate, the necessity therefor, and the reason for its transmission at this time are set forth in the letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, transmitted herewith, in whose comments and observations thereon I concur.
Page 4 - If the veteran has died before making application under section 302, or, if entitled to receive adjusted service pay, has died after making application but before he has received payment under Title IV, then the amount of his adjusted service credit shall (as soon as practicable after receipt of an application in accordance with the provisions of section 604, but not before March 1, 1925) be paid to his dependents, in the following order of preference...
Page 2 - ... the rules prescribed in section 6 herein. Such allocations shall be reviewed and may be revised by the board and shall become final upon their approval by said board. Whenever an existing position or a position hereafter created by law shall not fairly and reasonably be allocable to one of the grades of the several services described in the compensation schedules, the board shall adopt for such position the range of compensation prescribed for a grade, or a class thereof, comparable therewith...
Page 8 - To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled
Page 8 - Agriculture may, in his discretion, from time to time make payments on said construction as the same progresses, but these payments, including previous payments, if any, shall not be more than the United States...
Page 6 - I discussed this with you some time ago in connection with Mitchell Field, which is a military reservation and aviation field. There is an enormous amount of work to be done in the way of grading, and so forth, because of the addition of 345 acres to the field. It is ideal work for Civilian Conservation Camps to do, and it is only 20-miles from the center of New York City.

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