General Government Matters Appropriations for 1959: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session

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Page 17 - Council shall be to advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating, to the national security so as to enable the military services and the other departments and agencies of the Government to cooperate more effectively in matters involving the national security.
Page 25 - Council — (1) to assess and appraise the objectives, commitments, and risks of the United States in relation to our actual and potential military power, in the interest of national security, for the purpose of making recommendations to the President in connection therewith...
Page 28 - Nothing in this order shall be construed as subjecting any department, establishment, or other instrumentality of the executive branch of the Federal Government or the head thereof, or any function vested by law in or assigned pursuant to law to any...
Page 25 - Council is composed of the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the...
Page 25 - The Joint Chiefs of Staff are the principal military advisers to the President, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense.
Page 42 - CREATION AND AUTHORITY The Office of Defense Mobilization was established in the Executive Office of the President by Reorganization Plan No. 3 (18 FR 3375) which became effective on June 12, 1953. Reorganization Plan No. 3 provides for a Director and a Deputy Director of Defense Mobilization to be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Page 79 - Activities Control Board for an order directing the Communist Party to register as a Communist-action organization, pursuant to the provisions of the Internal Security Act of 1950. On April 20, 1953, the Board unanimously directed the Communist Party to register, finding "upon the overwhelming weight of the evidence, . . . [the Communist Party] is substantially directed, dominated, and controlled by the Soviet Union . . . and . . . operates primarily to advance the objectives of such world communist...
Page 42 - President finds that the article is being imported into the United States in such quantities as to threaten to impair the national security...
Page 100 - United States and Canadian communication carriers to provide worldwide voice and record communications for the military, other agencies of the Federal Government and civilian users throughout the State of Alaska.
Page 42 - AN ACT Relating to the construction of school facilities in areas affected by Federal activities and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled^ PURPOSE AND APPROPRIATION SECTION 1.

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