Testimony of Chief Medical Director, Veterans' Administration, Concerning Veterans' Hospitals, Facilities, and Personnel: Hearings Before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session ... June 17 and 18, 1947U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947 - 42 pages |
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... record your actual needs would be if someone on the Appropriations Committee asked you ; but you could not volunteer under this directive . At that hearing , did anyone on the Appropriations Committee ask you what your actual needs were ...
... record your actual needs would be if someone on the Appropriations Committee asked you ; but you could not volunteer under this directive . At that hearing , did anyone on the Appropriations Committee ask you what your actual needs were ...
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... record . My information at the moment is that four actually have started receiving patients since the 1st of January , although they may have been opened and staffed prior to that time . Mr. Ross . Opened and staffed prior to that time ...
... record . My information at the moment is that four actually have started receiving patients since the 1st of January , although they may have been opened and staffed prior to that time . Mr. Ross . Opened and staffed prior to that time ...
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... records furnished you by the Oklahoma hospitals were to the effect that there were no service - connected or emergency cases on the waiting list . At the time you were telling me that , the veterans ' hospital at Muskogee was calling up ...
... records furnished you by the Oklahoma hospitals were to the effect that there were no service - connected or emergency cases on the waiting list . At the time you were telling me that , the veterans ' hospital at Muskogee was calling up ...
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... record a lot of statements that had come to him from veterans and we checked up on them and I think found every one of them was an NP patient ; that is , a mental patient . Now , I have no axe to grind . I have been on this committee 22 ...
... record a lot of statements that had come to him from veterans and we checked up on them and I think found every one of them was an NP patient ; that is , a mental patient . Now , I have no axe to grind . I have been on this committee 22 ...
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... record comes from your administrator in the hospital there ? Dr. HAWLEY . Yes , sir . Mr. MITCHELL . That is where the trouble is . Mr. KEARNEY . Mr. Phillips . Mr. PHILLIPS . May I ask you one brief question , General ? What does your ...
... record comes from your administrator in the hospital there ? Dr. HAWLEY . Yes , sir . Mr. MITCHELL . That is where the trouble is . Mr. KEARNEY . Mr. Phillips . Mr. PHILLIPS . May I ask you one brief question , General ? What does your ...
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Page 40 - Veterans' organization' means an organization composed of members or former members of the armed forces of the United States which is organized for patriotic and public service purposes, including the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Jewish War Veterans, American GI Forum, Catholic War Veterans, or any veterans' organization chartered by the United States Congress.
Page 14 - ... emergency cases. I think the public, from the information that comes out of your office, it seems to me, gets such a glowing report that everything is going all right, when I know down in my State that they are not. I just fairly well sympathize with the Appropriations Committee and everyone else, but if you are not going to come in here and tell us what you need...
Page 19 - ... the certification ? Mr. SHUFF. I was not in it at the time. I have to get that from Mr. Fowler. Do you have the vote ? Mr. FOWLER. Do you want the actual figures of the vote ? Mr. PUCINSKI. Approximately. Mr. AYRES. Yes, approximately. Mr. PUCINSKI. I will give it to you in just a second. Mr. AYRES. The thing that I am trying to get at, Mr. Chairman, is that this has come up in different places throughout the country. The employees go out and strike and then, before anything is settled, most...
Page 39 - ... Well, then, I hope the chairman will support my amendment. Mr. Allen. Would the gentleman yield? Mr. Kearney. Yes. Mr. Allen. Of course, the gentleman knows that I would support it, too. I think that that would be a good amendment. Mr. Kearney. Well, the committee will have a chance to vote on it. Mr. Huber. Will the gentleman yield? Mr. Kearney. Yes. Mr. Huber. I think, since everybody has to play the same record when we discuss communism, I want to say in advance how I, too, detest and despise...