Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1970: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-first Congress, First Session, Part 7

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Page 2 - The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The Legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The Judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse ; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society ; and can take no active resolution whatever.
Page 94 - SCHOOL LIBRARY RESOURCES, TEXTBOOKS, AND OTHER INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED SEC. 201. (a) The Commissioner shall carry out a program for making grants for the acquisition of school library resources, textbooks, and other printed and published instructional materials for the use of children and teachers in public and private elementary and secondary schools.
Page 411 - Schools bring little influence to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context; and. . . this very lack of an independent effect means that the inequalities imposed on children by their home, neighborhood, and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront adult life at the end of school.
Page 389 - States has placed financial burdens by reason of the fact that— (1) the revenues available to such agencies from local sources have been reduced as the result of the acquisition of real property by the United States ; or (2) such agencies provide education for children residing on Federal property ; or (3) such agencies provide education for children whose parents are employed on Federal property ; or (4) there has been a sudden and substantial increase in school attendance as the result of Federal...
Page 280 - The American Nurses' Association is the professional organization of over 200,000 registered nurses in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Canal Zone.
Page 470 - Nation greater opportunity to make available to their patients the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease, cancer, stroke, and related diseases.
Page 95 - State from its allotment under subsection (b) of this section will be expended solely for projects approved by the State educational agency for (A) acquisition of special equipment (other than supplies consumed in use), including audiovisual materials and equipment, and printed and published materials (other than textbooks), suitable for use in providing education...
Page 431 - We wish now to express our encouragement to men of science, who "can considerably advance the welfare of marriage and the family, along with peace of conscience, if by pooling their efforts they labor to explain more thoroughly the various conditions favoring a proper regulation of...
Page 739 - Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee: I am grateful for this opportunity to appear before you today.
Page 389 - States to provide financial assistance . . . for those local educational agencies upon which the United States has placed financial burdens...

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