Legislation Relating to Service-connected Compensation for Veterans and Their Dependents (all Wars): Hearings, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, March 21-23, 1956 |
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82d Congress 84th Cong 84th Congress Act of June active military active service Administrator of Veterans aggravated by active air service amended 38 U. S. C. America in Congress American Legion anatomical loss authorized benefits bill Board of Veterans centum the monthly CHAIRMAN child claim compensation payable conclusive presumption Congress assembled connection death compensation degree of disability disability compensation disability is rated disability or death disabled veterans discharge effective date enacted evidence hospital House of Representatives incurred injury or disease June 27 laws administered legislation line of duty loss or loss March 20 military or naval month monthly compensation multiple sclerosis OLIN E paragraph pension percent disability person presumptive period prior proposed psychosis Public Law Purple Heart purposes rate of compensation retirement pay Senate and House service-connected disability Spanish-American War Stat subparagraph TEAGUE thereof tion total disability tuberculosis Veterans Regulation Numbered widow World War II World War Veterans
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Page 3409 - ... (1) If the disabled person, as the result of service-incurred disability, has suffered the anatomical loss, or loss of use of both hands, or...
Page 3371 - June 27, 1950, and prior to such date as shall thereafter be determined by Presidential proclamation or concurrent resolution of the Congress, shall, subject to other provisions of law and Veterans Regulations administered by the Veterans...
Page 3393 - ... on the ground that he was a conscientious objector who refused to perform military duty or refused to wear the uniform or otherwise to comply with lawful orders of competent military authority, or...
Page 3315 - An Act to maintain the credit of the United States Government...
Page 3352 - ... changed, modified, or repealed by this act may be prosecuted and punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed.
Page 3341 - The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations...
Page 3391 - Scope of exclusive rights in pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works' (a) Subject to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section, the exclusive right to...
Page 3381 - For the purposes of this subdivision the word "veteran" shall mean a person who has served in the active military or naval service of the United States at any time on or after September 16, 1940, and prior to July 26, 1947, or on or after June 27, 1950, and prior to February 1, 1955...
Page 3387 - child" as used in the regulations in this part includes: (a) A legitimate child; (b) A child legally adopted; (c) A stepchild if a member of the veteran's household at the time of the death of the veteran, or (d) An illegitimate child but as to the father only if acknowledged in writing signed by him, or if he has been judicially ordered or decreed to contribute to such child's support or has been judicially decreed to be the putative father of such child.
Page 3393 - An injury or disease incurred during military or naval service will be deemed to have been incurred in line of duty and not the result of the veteran's own misconduct when the person on whose account benefits are claimed was, at the time the injury was suffered or disease contracted, in active...