Administration of Cemeteries: Availability of Cemetery Space for Burial of Eligible War Veterans, and Administration of Such Cemeteries: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session. March 26 and 27; April 1, 1968

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Page 3182 - So much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds employed, used, held available, or to be made available in connection with the functions transferred to the...
Page 3319 - USC 99), or of any other Federal law imposing restrictions, requirements, or penalties in relation to the employment of persons, the performance of...
Page 3188 - Hospitalized or undergoing treatment, at the expense of the United States, for injury or disease contracted or incurred under honorable conditions while...
Page 3186 - Reservation of a gravesite for the widow of a nonrecoverable member of the Armed Forces of the United States (lost or buried at sea or officially determined to be permanently absent in a status of missing or missing in action) is not authorized.
Page 3191 - That the President of the United States shall have power, whenever in his opinion it shall be expedient, to purchase cemetery grounds, and cause them to be securely enclosed, to be used as a national cemetery for the soldiers who shall die in the service of the country.
Page 3357 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Page 3164 - Administration all the functions, powers, and duties now conferred by law upon the Commissioner of Pensions, the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and the Director of the United States Veterans' Bureau are hereby conferred upon and vested in the Administrator of Veterans
Page 3218 - The Department of War was designated the Department of the Army and the title of the Secretary of War was changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch.
Page 3216 - The wife, husband, surviving spouse, minor child, and. in the discretion of the Secretary of the Army, unmarried adult child of any of the persons listed in clauses (1) — (4).

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