Labor-Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1956, Hearings Before the Subcommittee of ... , 84-1 on H.R. 5046

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Page 660 - Bureau shall investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 670 - State publicwelfare agencies in establishing, extending, and strengthening, especially in predominantly rural areas, public -welfare services (hereinafter in this section referred to as "child welfare services") for the protection and care of homeless, dependent, and neglected children, and children in danger of becoming delinquent...
Page 246 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 634 - United States," when used in a geographical sense, shall be deemed to mean the several States, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. (c) The terms "land or naval forces" and "land and naval forces" shall be deemed to include aviation units of such forces.
Page 2 - The purpose of the Department of Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 246 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural, and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Page 59 - The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency are designated members of the Committee.
Page 139 - An individual shall be disqualified for benefits : (a) For the week in which he has left work voluntarily without good cause...
Page 260 - For expenses necessary for the Office of Education, including surveys, studies, investigations, and reports regarding libraries; fostering coordination of public and school library service; coordination of library service on the national level with other forms of adult education ; developing library participation in Federal projects; fostering Nation-wide coordination of research materials among libraries, interstate library coordination and the development of library service throughout the country...
Page 629 - Act, of $168,400,000 for grants to States for old-age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, and aid...

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