Increase Compensation for World War I Presumptive Service-connected Cases, Provide Minimum Ratings for Service-connected Arrested Tuberculosis, Increase Compensation Rates, Liberalize Requirement for Dependency Allowances, Facilitate Cooperation with the Veterans' Administration, and Redefine "line of Duty" and "willful Misconduct".: Hearings ... on H.R. 63, 280, 290, 292, 896, 900, 901, 903, 906, 908, 909, 910, 911, 192, 923, 928, Etc ... May 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, June 7, 8, 91949 - 896 pages |
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Page 599 - The surviving widow, child or children, and/or dependent mother or father of any deceased person who died as a result of injury or disease incurred in or aggravated by active military or naval service...
Page 579 - ... and the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is hereby authorized and directed to...
Page 782 - ... except as to defects, disorders, or infirmities made of record in any manner by proper authorities of the United States at the time of, or prior to, inception of active service, to the extent to which any such defect, disorder, or infirmity was so made of record: Provided, That an exservice man who is shown to have or, if deceased, to have had...
Page 783 - All public laws granting medical or hospital treatment, domiciliary care, compensation and other allowances, pensions, disability allowance, or retirement pay to veterans and the dependents of veterans of the Spanish-American War, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, and...
Page 580 - July 2, 1921, is discharged or resigns shall be conclusively held and taken to have been in sound condition when examined, accepted, and enrolled for service...
Page 782 - That for death or disability resulting from personal injury suffered or disease contracted in the line of duty, by any commissioned officer or enlisted man or by any member of the Army Nurse Corps (female) or of the Navy Nurse Corps (female) when employed in the active service...
Page 853 - ... (e) has no wife but one child living, $11.20; (f) has no wife but two children living, $19.60; (g) has no wife but three or more children living, $28; (h) has a mother or father, either or both dependent upon him for support, then, in addition to the above amounts, $14 for each parent so dependent.
Page 886 - ... (e) has no wife but one child living, $14; (f) has no wife but two children living, $24.50; (g) has no wife but three or more children living, $35; (h) has a mother or father, either or both dependent upon him for support, then, in addition to the above amounts, $17.50 for each parent so dependent.
Page 782 - January 1, 1925, neuropsychiatrie disease, an active tuberculous disease, paralysis agitans, encephalitis lethargica, or amoebic dysentery developing a 10 per centum degree of disability or more in accordance with the provisions of subdivision (4) of section 202 of this Act shall be presumed to have acquired his disability in such service between April 6, 1917, and July 2, 1921...
Page 778 - ... or retirement pay to veterans and the dependents of veterans of the Spanish-American War, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, and the World War, or to former members of the military or naval service for injury or disease incurred or aggravated in the line of duty in the military or naval service (except so far as they relate to persons who served prior to the Spanish-American War and to the dependents of such persons, and the retirement of officers and enlisted men...