Laws Governing the Organization and Administration of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and the U.S. Veterans' Bureau and the Federal Board for Vocational Education in Its Relation to Veterans of the World War ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927 - 181 pages

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Page 15 - Any of the district courts of the United States within the jurisdiction of which such inquiry is carried on may, in case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena...
Page 15 - ... to give evidence touching the matter in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Page 14 - An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department," approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes. Be it enacted) T)y the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first section of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department...
Page 91 - An act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes
Page 78 - Act is amended by adding at the end thereof a new sentence to read as follows...
Page 14 - SEC. 13. That the director, subject to the general direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall administer, execute, and enforce the provisions of this Act, and for that purpose have full power and authority to make rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, necessary or appropriate to carry out its purposes, and shall decide all questions arising under the Act, except as otherwise provided in sections five and four hundred and five.
Page 159 - SEC. 401. That such insurance must be applied for within one hundred and twenty days after enlistment or after entrance into or employment in the active service and before discharge or resignation...
Page 53 - That hereafter, immediately upon the official notification of the death from wounds or disease, not the result of his own misconduct, of any officer or enlisted man on the active list of the...
Page 17 - ... an illegitimate child but as to the father only if acknowledged in writing, signed by him, or if he has been judicially ordered or decreed to contribute to the child's support or has been, prior to his death judicially decreed to be the putative father of such child, or if he is otherwise shown by evidence satisfactory to the Administrator of Veterans...

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