Unemployment in the United States: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Labor, House of Representatives, Seventy-second Congress, First Session, on H.R. 206, a Bill Authorizing an Appropriation for the Relief of Destitution in the United States; H.R. 6011, a Bill to Provide for Cooperation by the Federal Government with Several States in Relieving Hardship and Suffering Caused by Unemployment and for Other Purposes; H.R. 8088, a Bill to Provide for Cooperation by the Federal Government with the Several States in Relieving Hardship and Suffering Caused by Unemployment, and for Other Purposes. February 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 11 and 12 1932U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932 - 207 pages |
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Page 6 - Board shall receive a salary at the rate of $10,000 per annum, together with necessary traveling and subsistence expenses, or per diem allowance in lieu thereof...
Page 163 - But the proposition that there are legislative powers affecting the nation as a whole which belong to, although not expressed in the grant of powers, is in direct conflict with the doctrine that this is a government of enumerated powers.
Page 4 - If these plans shall be in conformity with the provisions of this Act and reasonably appropriate and adequate to carry out its purposes they shall be approved by the board and due notice of such approval shall be sent to the State agency by the chief of the Children's Bureau.
Page 161 - The party who invokes the power must be able to show, not only that the statute is invalid, but that he has sustained or is immediately in danger of sustaining some direct injury as the result of its enforcement, and not merely that he suffers in some indefinite way in common with people generally.
Page 6 - ... such expenditures (including expenditures for personal services and rent at the seat of government and elsewhere, for law books...
Page 8 - State for the maintenance of the services and facilities of this act, as provided in section 2 hereof; and (4) the amount to which the State is entitled under the provisions of this act. Such certificate...
Page 2 - Said sums shall be allotted to the States in the proportion which their population bears to the total population of the United States...
Page 3 - Any State desiring to receive the benefits of this Act shall, by its agency described in section 4, submit to the Children's Bureau detailed plans for carrying out the provisions of this Act within such State, which plans shall be subject to the approval of the board...
Page 163 - The argument of counsel ignores the principal factor in this article, to wit, " the people." Its principal purpose was not the distribution of power between the United States and the States, but a reservation to the people of all powers not granted. The preamble of the Constitution declares who framed it, "we the people of the United States...
Page 19 - Act, and shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the treasurers of the various States the amount which has been apportioned to each State for the fiscal year for which such appropriation has been made. Sec.