Wheeler v. United States

This proceeding is brought by a former employee of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, now *203part of tbe State Department, to recover back salary totalling $24,276.16 allegedly due him as the result of a purported denial of his right, under the provisions of the Act of June 23,1943, ch. 142, 57 Stat. 162, as amended, 50 U. S. C. (App.) §§ 1471-1475 (sometimes referred to herein as the Merchant Marine Reemployment Act), to be reemployed in the position held by him at the time of his acceptance of a commission as an officer in the United States Merchant Marine during World…