Relief of Puerto Rico: Joint Hearings on S.J.Res.172 and H.J.Res.333 ... December 10 and 11, 1928 .... |
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acres Agriculture CHARDON American Red Cross amount anemometer average barns bill blown buildings cane cent Chairman coast coconut coffee growers coffee plantations coffee trees commission Commissioner of Agriculture committee condition Congress crop cultivation cyclone DALLINGER damage DAVILA destroyed destruction Drum estimated Fajardo farmers farms Federal land bank fruit growers give government of Porto Governor TowNER Guayama HIRAM BINGHAM HOLCOMB houses hurricane inches industry Insular Affairs insular government island of Porto JENKINS joint resolution KIESS KNUTSON labor loan loss Major RIDLEY ment miles per hour municipalities planted planters Porto Rico pounds production question record rehabilitation Rican roads rural SABATH San Ciriaco San Felipe San Juan schoolhouses Secretary Secretary of War seed Senator BINGHAM September 13 shade trees situation statement storm suffered sugar survey taxes THOMAS tion tobacco UNDERHILL United valuation velocity Virgin Islands wind
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Seite 1 - It shall be the duty of the commission to assist in the rehabilitation of agriculture in the Island of Porto Rico, particularly on the coffee plantations and on the coconut plantations, to encourage a more general planting...
Seite 2 - Act of 1923 to fix the compensation of, such employees, and to make such expenditures (including expenditures for personal services and rent at the seat of Government and elsewhere, and for law books, books of reference, and periodicals), as may be necessary efficiently to execute the functions vested in the Board.
Seite 2 - ... the civil service laws, such officers and employees, and to utilize such Federal officers and employees, and, with the consent of the State, such State and local officers and employees, as he may find necessary, to prescribe their authorities, duties, responsibilities, and tenure, and, without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to fix the compensation of any officers and employees so appointed.
Seite 92 - The proposed legislation has been submitted to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, who advises that it is not in conflict with the financial program of the President.
Seite 93 - Rico would quickly hecome as intelligent." The commission goes on to say : The schools we visited are simply pretensions to education, and in the United States would not he regarded as being worthy of the name. The miserable hovels into which these schools are crowded, the unwholesome and unhealthy conditions surrounding them, the lack of the smallest conveniences, and the entire absence of a good system of school books are noticeable everywhere. In but a single school...
Seite 2 - There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $2,000,000 to be used for the rebuilding and repair of schoolhouses damaged or destroyed by the hurricane in the small towns and rural districts of Porto Rico and for the employment of labor and the purchase of materials for repairing insular and rural municipal roads.
Seite 2 - ... to assist in the rehabilitation of agriculture in the island of Porto Rico, particularly on the coffee plantations and on the coconut plantations, to encourage a more general planting of food crops needed by laborers on the plantations, especially of root crops, to aid in tbe repair and restoration of schools and roads, and to assist in providing employment for unemployed and destitute laborers.
Seite 2 - Rico in such amounts and upon such terms and conditions as the commission shall by regulation prescribe, including an agreement by the borrowers to use the loan for the purposes specified by the commission ; except that no such loan shall be made for a period of more than ten years or in an amount in excess of $25,000 to any one individual.
Seite 13 - ... it possible to care properly for those who do serve under arms at home and abroad. And inasmuch as the American Red Cross is the official recognized agency for voluntary effort in behalf of the armed forces of the nation and for the administration of relief, Now, therefore, by virtue of my authority as President of the United States and President of the American Red Cross, I, Woodrow Wilson, do hereby proclaim the week ending June 25, 1917, as Red Cross Week...
Seite 28 - That for the purpose of preventing the pollution and obstruction of Rock Creek and of connecting Potomac Park with the Zoological Park and Rock Creek Park, a commission, to be composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, and the...