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..... statute is as follows: "it is unlawful for any senator or representative in, or delegate or resident commissioner, to, congress, or any candidate for, or individual elected as, senator, representative, delegate, or resident commissioner, or any officer or employee of the united states, or any person receiving any salary or compensation for services from money derived from the treasury of the united states, to directly or indirectly solicit, receive, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting ..... , on charges that, being a representative in congress, he received and was concerned in receiving specified sums of money from named officers and employees of the united states for the political purpose of promoting his nomination as republican candidate for representative at certain republican primaries. ..... it hardly needs argument to show that congress may provide that its officers and employees neither shall exercise nor be subjected to pressure for money for political purposes, upon or ..... a representative in congress who receives or is concerned in receiving money from officers and employees of the united states for the political purpose of promoting his nomination at a party primary, as a candidate for reelection, is guilty of the offense defined by ..... but the power of congress over the conduct of officers and employees of the government no more depends upon authority over the ultimate purposes of that conduct than its power to punish a use of the mails for a fraudulent purpose is limited .....
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..... payable in respect of the disability or death of -- "(1) a master or member of a crew of any vessel, nor any person engaged by the master to load or unload or repair any small vessel under eighteen tons net; or" "(2) an officer or employee of the united states or any agency thereof, or of any state or foreign government, or of any political subdivision thereof. ..... and anyone otherwise entitled to recover damages from such employer at law or in admiralty on account of such injury or death, except that, if an employer fails to secure payment of compensation as required by this chapter, an injured employee, or his legal representative in case death results from the injury, may elect to claim compensation under this chapter, or to maintain an action at law or in admiralty for damages on account of such injury or death. ..... the case is governed by the longshoremen's and harbor workers' compensation act, which prescribes exclusively the liability of employer where employees engaged in maritime employment suffer disability or death from injuries occurring upon the navigable waters of the united states and recovery through workmen's compensation proceedings may not validly ..... * the general scheme of the longshoremen's and harbor workers' compensation act was to provide compensation to employees engaged in maritime employment, except as stated, for disability or death resulting from injury occurring upon the navigable waters of the united states where recovery through workmen's compensation .....
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..... or if the disability or death is that of a master or a member of the crew of any vessel; or if it is that of a person engaged by the master to load or unload or repair any small vessel under eighteen tons net; or if it is that of an officer or employee of the united states or any agency thereof; or if it is that of an officer or employee of any state, or foreign government, or any political subdivision thereof; or if recovery for the disability or death through workmen's compensation proceedings may be validly provided by state ..... in respect of the disability or death of --" "(1) a master or member of a crew of any vessel nor any person engaged by the master to load or unload or repair any small vessel under eighteen tons net; or" "(2) an officer or employee of the united states or any agency thereof or of any state or foreign government, or of any political subdivision ..... to be appropriately enforced by proceedings in court, there can be no doubt that the act contemplates that as to questions of fact, arising with respect to injuries to employees within the purview of the act, the findings of the deputy commissioner, supported by evidence and within the scope of his authority, shall be final ..... compensation for temporary or permanent disability, total or partial, according to the statutory classification, and, in case of the death of the employee, is fixed, being based upon prescribed percentages of average weekly wages, and the persons to whom payments are to be made are .....
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..... the case involves the construction of a statute of the united states which makes it a crime for an officer or employee of a federal reserve bank, or of any member bank, to make any entry in its books with intent to defraud. ..... statement of such federal reserve bank or member bank with intent in any case to injure or defraud such federal reserve bank or member bank or any other company, body politic or corporate, or any individual person, or to deceive any officer of such federal reserve bank or member bank, or the comptroller of the currency, or any agent or examiner appointed to examine the affairs of such federal reserve bank or member bank, or the federal reserve board . . . ..... any officer, director, agent, or employee of any federal reserve bank, or of any member bank . . ..... aim was to give assurance that, upon an inspection of a bank, public officers and others would discover in its books of account a picture of its true condition ..... odd numbered counts charge an intent to injure and defraud bank, and the even numbered counts an intent to deceive the officers of the bank and the comptroller of the currency. ..... 5209, as amended, which makes it a crime for an officer of a federal reserve bank, or of any member bank, to make any false entry in its books with intent to defraud, the entry of a name appearing on a discounted note as that of co-maker is a false entry if made with knowledge that ..... "the crime of making false entries by an officer of a national bank with the intent to defraud . .....
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..... occasion to decide whether a stranger would be liable as for a preference if, without suggestion from any officer or employee of the bank, he withdrew his deposit because of rumor or suspicion of insolvency. ..... have been made by the bank in contemplation of insolvency "with a view to prefer one creditor to another," since this check was paid, like others, in the usual course, without intention on the part of the bank's managing officers to prefer the company; (e) that the wrongful action, if any, was that of ekstrom in using for his company's benefit knowledge obtained in confidence as director of the bank; but (f) that such breach of duty of a director ..... the argument is (a) that, in drawing the check, and thus causing its payment, ekstrom acted not as director of the bank, but as president of the company; (b) that he was neither an employee of the bank nor specifically authorized as a director to make payment of the check; (c) that this payment was but one with many others which the bank made on the days involved, in the ordinary ..... the answer denied that the bank was then insolvent; that it was known by its officers and directors to be so; that they contemplated the imminent necessity of its closing, and that the payment was made with a view ..... so to defeat the just and equal distribution of the assets commanded by the act rests upon all who obtain such knowledge by reason of their connection with the bank -- upon directors and employees, as well as upon the executive officers. .....
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..... account for and pay over any tax, and any person who willfully attempts to evade or defeat any tax shall be guilty of felony, and paragraph (c) that "the term 'person' as used in this section includes an officer or employee of a corporation or a member or employee of a partnership, who as such officer, employee, or member is under a duty to perform the act in respect of which the violation occurs. ..... " "(c) the term 'person' as used in this section includes an officer or employee of a corporation or a member or employee of a partnership, who as such officer, employee, or member is under a duty to perform the act in respect of which the violation occurs ..... (b) of 146 of the revenue act of 1928, which provides that any person who willfully attempts to defeat a tax shall be guilty of a felony, is applicable to an officer of a corporation who made a false return on its behalf in a willful attempt to defeat part of its tax, even though making a return for the corporation was no part of his duty. p ..... the return shall be sworn to by the president, vice-president, or other principal officer and by the treasurer or assistant treasurer. . . . ..... over any tax who willfully fails, also any person (without regard to duty) who willfully attempts to defeat the tax, and paragraph (c) declares that the term person as used in the section shall include an officer under duty to perform, etc. ..... and because some officers are said to be included in the term "person," all other individuals are not necessarily .....
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..... itself is not denied, but it was suggested in the court below by counsel for the state, and the suggestion was repeated here, albeit faintly, that the record does not establish whether relator was an officer or employee of the railroad company or an independent contractor. ..... the railroad company being immune from state taxation, it necessarily results that fixed salaries and compensation paid to its officers and employees in their capacity as such are likewise immune. ..... the railroad company being immune from state taxation, it necessarily results that fixed salaries and compensation paid to its officers and employees in their capacities as such are likewise immune. p. ..... owned instrumentality of the united states, engaged in maintaining, operating and protecting the panama canal; that, as such, the railroad company was exempt from state taxation, and, in consequence, the fixed salaries paid to its officers and employees were also exempt. ..... we think this evidence sufficiently negatives the belated suggestion that relator may have been an independent contractor, and not an officer, within the rule stated and discussed in metcalf & eddy v. ..... relator -- since 1906 the general counsel of the railroad company at a fixed annual salary, and in the same category in respect of the company as the secretary and treasurer -- may have been an independent contractor, and not an officer. p. .....
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..... section 2 accords preferences in the case of certain officers and employees; 3 fixes the basis for the computation of the gratuity; 4 allows an officer or employee to choose between the gratuity granted by the act and page 299 ..... " if the governor-general had power under the foregoing clause of 19 of the organic act to veto 7 of the gratuities bill, he had like power to veto 2, granting preferences to certain classes of officers and employees, or 4, allowing a choice between the gratuity granted by the act under review and a gratuity granted by some other act, or 5, according a right of succession to unpaid gratuities in case of death; or 6, providing for conditional reappointment of persons separated ..... became act 4051, laws of the philippines (retirement gratuity law), provided for the payment of retirement gratuities to officers and employees of the insular government who were retired as a result of the reorganization or reduction in personnel thereof. ..... it is entitled "an act to provide for the payment of retirement gratuities to officers and employees of the insular government retired from the service as a result of the reorganization or reduction of personnel thereof, including the justices of the peace who must relinquish office in accordance with the provisions of act numbered thirty-eight hundred and ninety-nine, and ..... passing for the present 7 -- abolishes the offices and positions vacated by the separation or retirement of officers and employees, with certain exceptions. .....
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..... in this regard, the bond was like that of a collector of customs, county treasurer, sheriff, clerk of court, administrator, guardian, or cashier, as to which it is well settled that the selection of the officer or employee whose fidelity is assured constitutes a present consideration amply supporting the undertaking of the obligors -- sureties as well as principals. ..... designated depositories shall be filed of record in the office of the clerk of the court, and may be sued upon in the name of the united states for the use of any person injured by a breach of their conditions. .....
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..... logic, it is difficult to differentiate the present case from that of a private citizen who furnishes goods, performs work, or renders service to a state or a municipality under a contract or an officer or employee of a corporation which does the same. ..... frank admissions of counsel at the bar concerning the confusion and apparent inconsistency in administrative rulings as to the taxability of compensation of municipal employees seem to call for an equally candid statement that our decisions in the same field have not furnished the executive a consistent rule of ..... operations are immune from federal taxation and, as a necessary corollary, "fixed salaries and compensation paid to its officers and employees in their capacity as such are likewise immune. ..... nor are we called upon here to determine the validity of a nondiscriminatory tax upon the salary of a governmental officer whose duties and functions have no analogue in the conduct of a business or the pursuit of a profession, but are both peculiar to and essential to the ..... ) who are employed by municipal subdivisions and districts throughout the nation, and that, on the other hand, the powers of the states to tax may be inhibited in the case of hundreds of thousands of similar employees of federal agencies of one sort or another. ..... the chief engineer holds his office by statutory authority with a ..... and confusion is confined in the main to decisions relating to liability in tort for the negligence of officers and agents of the municipality. .....
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