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Page 272 - The Medical Department shall consist of one Surgeon General with the rank of major general, two assistants, with the rank of brigadier general, the Medical Corps, the Dental Corps, the Veterinary Corps, the Medical Administrative Corps, a number of enlisted men which until June 30, 1921, shall not exceed 5 per centum of the authorized enlisted strength and thereafter 5 per centum...
Page 26 - Administration shall be subject to review, on appeal, by such administrator. "SEC. 3. All property the title of which now stands in the name of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers is hereby transferred to and the title thereof vested in the United States.
Page 30 - That except in the event of legal proceedings, any person except the authorized representative of the American Red Cross, the American Legion, the Disabled American Veterans, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and such other organizations as shall be approved by the...
Page 274 - The essential requirements to securing an invitation are that the applicant shall be a citizen of the United States, shall be between twenty-two and thirty years of age, a graduate of a medical school legally authorized to confer the degree of doctor of medicine, shall be of good moral character and habits, and shall have had at least one year's hospital training or its equivalent in practice.
Page 33 - Administrator, such recovery would defeat the purpose of benefits otherwise authorized or would be against equity and good conscience. No disbursing officer shall be held liable for any amount paid by him to any person where the recovery of such amount is waived under this section.
Page 34 - ... be specifically appropriated for by Congress for such clerical and other personal services for each fiscal year; and no civil officer, clerk, draughtsman, copyist, messenger, assistant messenger, mechanic, watchman, laborer, or other employee shall hereafter be employed at the seat of government in any executive department or subordinate bureau or office thereof or be paid from any appropriation made for contingent expenses, or for any specific or general purpose, unless such employment is authorized...
Page 160 - ... not dishonorably discharged, without regard to the nature or origin of their disabilities : Provided...
Page 196 - World War Veterans' Legislation, Thursday, January 21, 1926. The committee met at 10 o'clock am, Hon. Royal C. Johnson (chairman) presiding. STATEMENT OF WATSON B. MILLER, CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL REHABILITATION COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN LEGION— Continued The Chairman. Mr. Miller, we are very glad to have you with us again this morning, and the committee would appreciate it very much if.
Page 140 - special clothing made necessary by the wearing of prosthetic appliances prescribed by the bureau." Now, the Veterans' Bureau has taken the position in regulations that " special clothing " means clothing built differently from the clothing that would be built for the man if he were not disabled. In other words, if I were wearing a prosthetic appliance that wore a hole through my coat I would not get any relief, because the clothes that I am wearing are not special clothing.
Page 277 - Medical officers may be ordered to duty in attendance upon a course of instruction at the Naval Medical School, Washington, DC, prior to going to sea or upon the expiration of a cruise.