Library Service in Rural Areas: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session, on H.R.5195, a Bill to Promote the Further Development of Public Library Service in Rural Areas. Hearings Held at Washington, D.C., April 1 and 2, 1952U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952 - 87 pages |
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... better let me supply that figure for the record . That sounds right , but I would like to give you an exact figure which we have in the office . ( COMMITTEE NOTE.-Dr. McGrath subsequently furnished the following information pertaining ...
... better let me supply that figure for the record . That sounds right , but I would like to give you an exact figure which we have in the office . ( COMMITTEE NOTE.-Dr. McGrath subsequently furnished the following information pertaining ...
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... better library service than they ordinarily have , and all too many have no library service at all . Justification for the bill itself and proof of the need it is designed to meet are probably less critical concerns to Members of the ...
... better library service than they ordinarily have , and all too many have no library service at all . Justification for the bill itself and proof of the need it is designed to meet are probably less critical concerns to Members of the ...
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... better time than now for Federal assistance . We can be sure that present conditions are not going to improve soon . We are going to be living for many years in this period of stress and strain and high taxes , and if this bill is as ...
... better time than now for Federal assistance . We can be sure that present conditions are not going to improve soon . We are going to be living for many years in this period of stress and strain and high taxes , and if this bill is as ...
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... better library service and undoubtedly does have better library service in the city of New York and other large cities than many cities of the country have . The point I want to make is that it is a Nation - wide problem . It seems to ...
... better library service and undoubtedly does have better library service in the city of New York and other large cities than many cities of the country have . The point I want to make is that it is a Nation - wide problem . It seems to ...
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... better library facilities all over this country will be so great and so persuasive that the States will continue with a program equal to that which they will have during the 5 years that this bill is in operation . I guess I represent ...
... better library facilities all over this country will be so great and so persuasive that the States will continue with a program equal to that which they will have during the 5 years that this bill is in operation . I guess I represent ...
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Page 1 - Board for such prior quarter. (3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Board, the amount so certified.
Page 1 - Administrator may find necessary. "(2) The Administrator shall then certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount so estimated by the Administrator for any period, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any sum by which he finds that his estimate for any prior period was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid to the State...
Page 2 - United States for the three most recent consecutive years for which satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce.
Page 2 - State plan approved under subsection (a) , finds that— (1) the State plan has been so changed that it no longer complies with the provisions of subsection (a), or (2) in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with any such provision...
Page 1 - State library administrative agency certifies will in its judgment assure use of such funds to maximum advantage in the further extension of public library services to areas without such services or with inadequate services...
Page 2 - Federal share" for any State shall be 100 per centum less the State percentage and the State percentage shall be that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of...
Page 2 - public library" means a library that serves free all residents of a community, district, or region, and receives its financial support in whole or in part from public funds...
Page 2 - State educational agency shall not make further payments under this title to specified local educational agencies affected by the failure) until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such failure to comply. Until he is so satisfied...