Vocational Rehabilitation : Hearing Before the Committee on Education, House of Representatives, Seventy-first Congress, Second Session on H.R. 7138 a Bill to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act to Provide for the Promotion of Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons Disabled in Industry Or Otherwise and Their Return to Civil Employment," Approved June 2, 1920, as Amended. January 20, 1930

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Page 121 - Agriculture, the ^ general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, pro- , pagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 34 - An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to civil employment," approved June 2, 1920, as amended (USC, title 29, ch.
Page 3 - July 1, [1024] 1930, for the purpose of making studies, investigations, and reports regarding the vocational rehabilitation of disabled persons and their placements in suitable or gainful occupations...
Page 9 - That is all I have to say. * The CHAIRMAN. Thank you very much. Mr.
Page 2 - Congress assembled to provide for the promotion of Vocational Rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to Civil Employment, Approved June 2, 1920.
Page 117 - In expounding the Constitution of the United States," said Chief Justice Taney in Holmes v. Jennison, 14 Pet. 540, 570, 571, "every word must have its due force, and appropriate meaning; for it is evident from the whole instrument, that no word was unnecessarily used, or needlessly added.
Page 121 - That there shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 118 - They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union. In like manner, they are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare but only to lay taxes for that purpose.
Page 2 - Said sums shall be allotted to the States in the proportion which their rural population bears to the total rural population in the United States...
Page 124 - To maintain the fundamental principles of the American Constitution ; to oppose further Federal encroachment upon the reserved rights of the States and of the individual citizen ; to stop the spread of communism ; to prevent the concentration of power in Washington through the multiplication of administrative bureaus under a perverted interpretation of the general welfare clause; and to help preserve a free republican form of government in the United States.

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