Department of Defense and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1955: Hearings ... 83d Congress, 2d Session

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Page 496 - Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Public Health Service to his new station for the wife and dependent child or children: Provided, That for persons in the naval service the term "permanent station...
Page 437 - The appropriation requested is a consolidation of the estimates of the military departments for: retired pay of military personnel on the retired lists of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force...
Page 63 - I do the very best I know how — the very best I can ; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Page 547 - Miss., 1928-32; appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon.
Page 109 - No more than 20 per centum of the appropriations in this Act which are limited for obligation during the current fiscal year shall be obligated during the last two months of the fiscal year: Provided, That this section shall not apply to obligations for support of active duty training of reserve components or summer camp training of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, Army.
Page 384 - In case the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, or the Secretary of the Air Force (or the Secretary ol the Treasury with respect to tbe United States Coast Guard) , determines that enlistment, enrollment, or appointment in.
Page 236 - No part of any appropriation contained in this act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence...
Page 156 - ... in time of war or national emergency hereafter declared by the Congress...
Page 446 - Court has jurisdiction as to questions of law in all cases : (1) Affecting a general or flag officer, or extending to death ; (2) Certified to the Court 'by the Judge Advocates General of the armed services, and by the General Counsel of the Department of...
Page 12 - What we are now seeking is primarily to clarify present policy and to unite in its application. We are not establishing a new policy. Consequently, my recommendations do not call for an increase in the Armed Forces of the United States or any acceleration in military procurement or levels of defense production. If any unforeseen emergency arises requiring any change, I will communicate with the Congress. I hope, however, that the effect of an appropriate congressional resolution will be to calm the...

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