Department of Labor-Federal Security Agency Appropriations for 1954: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, First Session. National Labor Relations Board; National Mediation Board; National Railroad Adjustment Board; Railroad Retirement Board; Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Testimony of Members of Congress, Interested Organizations and IndividualsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 612 pages |
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Page 381 - Bureau is charged with investigating and reporting "upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and childlife among all classes of our people.
Page 63 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, the Railroad Retirement Board is an independent agency in the executive branch of the Federal Government. It administers the Railroad Retirement Act and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act which provides a system of social insurance for railroad employees and their families.
Page 120 - Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; a member of the American Association of Military Surgeons, which he served as President in 1915.
Page 69 - SEC. 15. (a) There is hereby created an account in the Treasury of the United States to be known as the Railroad Retirement Account. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the account for each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, as an annual premium an amount sufficient, with a reasonable margin for contingencies, to provide for the payment of all annuities, pensions, and death benefits in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the Railroad Retirement...
Page 206 - I think I speak for every member of the committee when I say that we...
Page 32 - Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available to organize or assist in organizing agricultural laborers or used in connection with investigations, hearings, directives, or orders concerning bargaining units composed of agricultural laborers as referred to in section 2 (3) of the Act of July 5, 1935 (49 Stat. 450), and as amended by the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, and as defined in section 3 (f) of the Act of June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1060), and including in said definition...
Page 260 - ... high energy beams of the betatron and the cyclosynchrotron, the effective employment of a variety of radioactive isotopes — all these must now be embraced in the training of young radiologists who are to treat cancer — and that training, again, is long and exacting. The shortage of pathologists in our country is acute — there are fewer than 2,000 certified by the American Board of Pathology — yet precise microscopic diagnosis of cancer is the keystone of everything we do about it. The...
Page 112 - We think that you can with experimental research techniques make the brain and the spinal cord, once cut, regenerate and maybe even to function again. These are all of the things which have stimulated our efforts in the last few years.. One of our great boosts was the Neurological Institute. The rising tide of public interest in the neurological and sensory disorders was largely responsible for the establishment of the National Institute to work on such diseases and blindness. In the summer of 1950,...
Page 87 - ... have indicated. Mr. BUSBEY. Mr. Zempel, did I understand you to say that any matters that are adopted at an ILO conference would not be binding on the United States unless ratified by the Senate? Mr. ZEMPEL. Yes, sir. Mr. BUSBEY. There is no exception to that, then? Mr. ZEMPEL. None that I know of. Mr. BUSBEY. If there are no further questions, the committee will stand adjourned. TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1953. OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR WITNESSES HARRY N. ROUTZOHN, SOLICITOR OF LABOR JETER S. RAY, ASSOCIATE...
Page 253 - Government, and through great organizations such as the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association, and so on, such equality of opportunity was not the case in the medical schools of this country.