Development of Vocational Education in the Several States. Hearings...onH.R. 9201, (H.R. 12241)...Feb. 7, and March 20 and 21, 1928.(70-1)

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Page 10 - ... of a national department of education with a secretary of education in the President's Cabinet.
Page 5 - Dutch also. (At this point there was a brief discussion off the record which the reporter was directed not to record, after which the following occurred:) Mr.
Page 10 - July 1, 1937, and annually thereafter the sum of $350,000, to be expended for the same purposes and in the same manner as provided in section 7 of the Act approved February 23, 1917, as amended October 6, 1917.
Page 10 - ... of this Act shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings of educational associations and other organizations and for expenses of conferees called to meet in the District of Columbia...
Page 32 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I appear before your committee in support of the fiscal year 1955 requirements for appropriations to support the Office of the Secretary of the Navy and the Executive Office of the Secretary of the Navy. These budget activities, contained in the detailed justification book now before you, (Navy, vol.
Page 10 - For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act there is hereby appropriated " ? Mr. HENRY. Yes : " for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act there is hereby appropriated to the Federal Board...
Page 48 - I say, that we should chop the thing oft' at the end of two years; but I say, let us take two years at a time; establish this for two years and then let it come up again, and see if another term is necessary. Mrs. KAHN. Have you any idea how long it will take for that educational system? Mr. MANN. I think I might answer that categorically, that I do not think any of us will live to see the end of it, because it is a going concern. But we want to keep the thing in a state of flux, and we do not want...
Page 8 - There is a great and crying need of providing vocational education of this character for every part of the United States — to conserve and develop our resources; to promote a more productive and prosperous agriculture; to prevent the waste of human labor; to supplement apprenticeship; to increase the wage-earning power of our productive workers; to meet the increasing demand for trained workmen; to offset the increased cost of living.
Page 63 - EDUCATION OF THE FARM YOUTH It is certain that the task of transmitting to the rank and file of the farmers the results of agricultural research work must largely be attacked through improvements in education of the rural youth.

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