Shipping Board Operations, Volumes 1-14Government print., Office, 1921 - Merchant marine |
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Abadie Admiral BENSON agreement American amount asked assistant audit auditors Bethlehem Shipbuilding Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation Board Emergency Fleet boat Bolling building Capt cargo cent CHAIRMAN charge Charles Piez charter claims Commander GATEWOOD committee comptroller Congress CONNALLY contract contractor control accounts cost counsel district division Downey Shipbuilding Corporation Emergency Fleet Corporation eminent domain expenses fact FARR FOLEY Gillen going Government HAIGHT home office hull HURLEY JOHN BARTON PAYNE Judge Payne KELLEY labor letter MACNARY material matter ment merchant marine months Navy Norwegian owners operation organization overhead paid payments Perley Morse Piez plant ports President profit Providence Engineering Corporation question record reference repair requisition Sands Schwab settlement Shipping Board Emergency shipyards statement steamers STEELE tankers testimony thing tion tonnage Total treasurer treaty TWEEDALE United States Shipping vessels voucher Washington yards York
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Page 4974 - Just because we fight without rancor and without selfish object, seeking nothing for ourselves but what we shall wish to share with all free peoples, we shall, I feel confident, conduct our operations as belligerents without passion and ourselves observe with proud punctilio the principles of right and of fair play we profess to be fighting for.
Page 4994 - It would not be contended that it extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids, or a change in the character of the government or in that of one of the States, or a cession of any portion of the territory of the latter, without its consent.
Page 24 - An Act to establish a United States Shipping Board for the purpose of encouraging, developing, and creating a naval auxiliary and naval reserve and a merchant marine to meet the requirements of the commerce of the United States with its Territories and possessions and with foreign countries ; to regulate carriers by water engaged in the foreign and interstate commerce of the United States ; and for other purposes.
Page 4974 - President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said...
Page 25 - An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments on account of war expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes...
Page 24 - States, except one which the board Is prohibited from purchasing, shall be sold to any person not a citizen of the United States...
Page 2 - That it is necessary for the national defense and for the proper growth of its foreign and domestic commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine of the best equipped and most suitable types of vessels sufficient to carry the greater portion of its commerce and serve as a naval or military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency, ultimately to be owned and operated privately by citizens of the United States...
Page 4994 - The treaty power, as expressed in the Constitution, is in terms unlimited except by those restraints which are found in that instrument against the action of the government or of its departments, and those arising from the nature of the government itself and of that of the States.
Page 5272 - President; but their successors shall be appointed for terms of six years, except that any person chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the Commissioner whom he shall succeed. Any Commissioner may be removed by the President for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
Page 24 - That when the United States is at war or during any national emergency, the existence of which is declared by proclamation of the President...