War Department Appropriation Bill, 1925: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 7877, a Bill Making Appropriations for the Military and Nonmilitary Activities of the War Department for the Fiscal Year June 30, 1925, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - 283 pages |
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... Canal . I have also prepared for the convenience of the committee a tent tive list of the amendments to the appropriation bill as passed the House to be requested by the representatives of the War D partment . It will be noted that the ...
... Canal . I have also prepared for the convenience of the committee a tent tive list of the amendments to the appropriation bill as passed the House to be requested by the representatives of the War D partment . It will be noted that the ...
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... Canal and th Hawaiian Islands . Senator WADSWORTH . What page and line ? DEFENSE OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AND PANAMA CANAL Colonel DE WITT . I am going to speak , Senator , of certain item pertaining to the projects for the defense of Oahu ...
... Canal and th Hawaiian Islands . Senator WADSWORTH . What page and line ? DEFENSE OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AND PANAMA CANAL Colonel DE WITT . I am going to speak , Senator , of certain item pertaining to the projects for the defense of Oahu ...
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... Canal Department , is now e and will give the committee further details on the matter . enator WADSWORTH . Proceed , Major . TATEMENT OF MAJ . RAYCROFT WALSH , AIR SERVICE . Major WALSH . It might be explained that the fill which is ...
... Canal Department , is now e and will give the committee further details on the matter . enator WADSWORTH . Proceed , Major . TATEMENT OF MAJ . RAYCROFT WALSH , AIR SERVICE . Major WALSH . It might be explained that the fill which is ...
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... Canal , and it therefore recommends moderate increases in the amounts for thi purpose over those for the current year . The committee does not bring out the fact that these searchlight are used for three separate and distinct purposes ...
... Canal , and it therefore recommends moderate increases in the amounts for thi purpose over those for the current year . The committee does not bring out the fact that these searchlight are used for three separate and distinct purposes ...
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... CANAL ZONE eneral PATRICK . I have been asked , Senator , to say something cerning the defense against air attack in the Panama Canal Zone . en I appeared before the House committee I was asked : " What is best defense against an air ...
... CANAL ZONE eneral PATRICK . I have been asked , Senator , to say something cerning the defense against air attack in the Panama Canal Zone . en I appeared before the House committee I was asked : " What is best defense against an air ...
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Page 197 - Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretary, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the...
Page 247 - Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10.30 o'clock am, in the committee room, Capitol, Senator Frederick Hale presiding. Present: Senators Hale (chairman), Ball, Keyes, Pepper, Swanson, and Broussard. The subcommittee thereupon proceeded to the consideration...
Page 186 - That hereafter longevity pay for officers in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service and Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be baaed on the total of all service in any or all of said services.
Page 188 - An Act to increase the efficiency of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service.
Page 197 - Secretary, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such act...
Page 193 - That none of the funds appropriated or made available under this act or any of the unexpended balances of any other act shall be used for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger or freight carrying vehicles for the Army except those that are purchased solely for experimental purposes (RS, p.
Page 40 - Aircraft carrying high-capacity high-explosive bombs of sufficient size have adequate offensive power to sink or seriously damage any naval vessel at present constructed, provided such projectiles can be placed in the water close alongside the vessel. Furthermore, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to build any type of vessel of sufficient strength to withstand the destructive force that can be obtained with the largest bombs that airplanes may be able to carry from shore bases or sheltered...
Page 197 - That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or (2) to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or...
Page 234 - No payment shall be made from money appropriated in this Act to any officer on the retired list of the Army who, for himself or for others, is engaged in the selling of, contracting for the sale of, or negotiating for the sale of, to the Army or the War Department, any war materials or supplies.
Page 234 - Army who for himself or for others engages in the selling, contracting for the sale of, negotiating for the sale of, or furnishing to the Army or the War Department any supplies, materials, equipment, lands, buildings, plants, vessels, or munitions. None of the money appropriated In this Act shall be...