Merchant Marine Omnibus Bill: Hearings Before the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session |
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... language revisions . If the committee intends to report the bill favorably , we shall be glad to make avail- able to it such suggestions with respect to language . Medical relief benefits are provided by the Public Health Service under ...
... language revisions . If the committee intends to report the bill favorably , we shall be glad to make avail- able to it such suggestions with respect to language . Medical relief benefits are provided by the Public Health Service under ...
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... language revision should be made . Other- wise , many incongruous situations would result . Apparently the purpose of the proposed legislation is to place seamen in the same relative position , while employed by the United States , as ...
... language revision should be made . Other- wise , many incongruous situations would result . Apparently the purpose of the proposed legislation is to place seamen in the same relative position , while employed by the United States , as ...
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... language , but it may be contended under certain decisions of the courts that a general agent for the vessel might be held liable as an inde- pendent contractor with respect to claims arising out of the operation of the vessel . As a ...
... language , but it may be contended under certain decisions of the courts that a general agent for the vessel might be held liable as an inde- pendent contractor with respect to claims arising out of the operation of the vessel . As a ...
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... language : This agency ( W. S. A. ) has the management of practically the entire American merchant marine and the integration of our capacity and needs with the capacity and needs of the United Nations . The great need for cargo tonnage ...
... language : This agency ( W. S. A. ) has the management of practically the entire American merchant marine and the integration of our capacity and needs with the capacity and needs of the United Nations . The great need for cargo tonnage ...
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... language be made retroactive in effect to take care of those cases which have been classified as marine risks and which are considered by many , and frankly I think justifiably , as war risks . I cite for instance a case of the vessel ...
... language be made retroactive in effect to take care of those cases which have been classified as marine risks and which are considered by many , and frankly I think justifiably , as war risks . I cite for instance a case of the vessel ...
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Admiralty Act agents amend and clarify Army Transport Service authority bareboat charter behalf benefits BIGGE Captain DELANEY CHAIRMAN claims clarify certain provisions committee Compensation Act court cover coverage deposits on account desirable employed on privately enactment entitled Federal Employees Federal Security Agency Federal social security glad House of Representatives insurance protection intended Jones Act law relating liability Marine and Fisheries marine risks Maritime Commission MCCAULEY ment Merchant Marine Act merchant seamen employed National Labor Relations National Maritime Union old-age old-age and survivors operated vessels payments and deductions persons acting ping Administration present private employers private employment private operation problems proposed legislation RADNER reinsurance relating to functions requisitioned respect to seamen respect to vessels retroactive Risk Insurance Act Seventy-seventh Congress Shipping Administration Social Security Act social security laws statement suggested Suits in Admiralty tion underwriters United States Employees United States Maritime vessels operated War Powers Act War Shipping Administration
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Page 1 - Atomic Energy Act of 1954'." SEC. 2.— a. Section 1 (d) of the Act of December 29, 1950 (64 Stat. 1129), is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof a semicolon and the following: "when such order was entered by the Atomic Energy Commission, 'agency
Page 5 - An Act to amend and clarify certain provisions of law relating to functions of the War Shipping Administration, and for other purposes", approved March 24, 1943 (Public Law Numbered 17, Seventy-eighth Congress), are applicable.
Page 7 - States, it is hereby ordered as follows: 1. There is hereby established in the Office for Emergency Management of the Executive Office of the President the Office of Alien Property Custodian, at the head of which shall be an Alien Property Custodian appointed by the President.
Page 2 - ... or taking of title or possession, a suit in admiralty according to the principles of libels in rem against the fund, which shall proceed and be heard and determined according to the principles of law and to the rules of practice obtaining in like cases...
Page 9 - This section shall remain in force until six months after the termination of the present war or until such earlier time as the Congress by concurrent resolution or the President may designate...
Page 1 - American vessel. Any claim referred to in clause (2) or (3) hereof shall, If administratively disallowed in whole or in part, be enforced pursuant to the provisions of the Suits in Admiralty Act, notwithstanding the vessel on which the seaman Is employed is not a merchant vessel within the meaning of such Act. * • *. When used in this subsection the term "administratively disallowed...
Page 2 - Act, but the repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof embraced in this Act shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause before...
Page 10 - We have been advised by the Bureau of the Budget that it has no objection to the submission of this report from the standpoint of the administration's program.
Page 31 - ... and not only provides that the judgments against the corporations, as well as those against the United States, shall be paid out of money in the Treasury, but repeals the inconsistent provisions of all other acts. In view of these provisions of the act we cannot doubt that it was intended to furnish the exclusive remedy in admiralty against the United States and the corporations on all maritime causes of action arising out of the possession or operation of merchant vessels.
Page 3 - June 30, 1944, or on such earlier date as the Congress by concurrent resolution, or the President by proclamation, may prescribe. SEC. 7. (a) Section 1 (b) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 is hereby amended by striking out "June 30, 1943" and substituting "June 30, 1944.