Soldiers' Institute--Occupation of Mount Weather: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5901. June 10, 1921 |
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... 5901 JUNE 10 , 1921 Series G - Part 1 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1921 лакном LIBRARY STARFORD S SEP 19.1924 wax DOCUMEN COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE . HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . SIXTY -. Y 4. Ag8 ' : So 4 pt . 1 Front Cover.
... 5901 JUNE 10 , 1921 Series G - Part 1 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1921 лакном LIBRARY STARFORD S SEP 19.1924 wax DOCUMEN COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE . HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . SIXTY -. Y 4. Ag8 ' : So 4 pt . 1 Front Cover.
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... WASHINGTON , D. C. The CHAIRMAN . Kindly give your full name , address , and occupa- tion . Mr. BUSH - BROWN . My name is Henry K. Bush - Brown . sculptor by profession , resident in the city of Washington . I am a I became interested ...
... WASHINGTON , D. C. The CHAIRMAN . Kindly give your full name , address , and occupa- tion . Mr. BUSH - BROWN . My name is Henry K. Bush - Brown . sculptor by profession , resident in the city of Washington . I am a I became interested ...
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... Washington to the memory of their comrades who fell at the front . This will not only give occupation of a reconstructive character , but also give a spiritual vision of what it is to be an American , and what it is to live in the best ...
... Washington to the memory of their comrades who fell at the front . This will not only give occupation of a reconstructive character , but also give a spiritual vision of what it is to be an American , and what it is to live in the best ...
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... Washington Herald of May 8 , 1921 , in which he lays great stress on the fact that the English soldiers do not want to return to the work that they had before the war . It probably gives one of the best definitions of their critical ...
... Washington Herald of May 8 , 1921 , in which he lays great stress on the fact that the English soldiers do not want to return to the work that they had before the war . It probably gives one of the best definitions of their critical ...
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... Washington , which will keep the institute in accord with the many Government activities dealing with the injured soldiers so as to cooperate with them in every way and obviate duplication of effort , to the end that each will ...
... Washington , which will keep the institute in accord with the many Government activities dealing with the injured soldiers so as to cooperate with them in every way and obviate duplication of effort , to the end that each will ...
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16 rooms asked ASWELL authority Blue Ridge Mountains Bluemont Board for Vocational board of trustees boys BUCKLEW BUSH-BROWN CHAIRMAN Committee on Agriculture contract cooperation Cottage for dwelling Department of Agriculture disabled soldiers District of Columbia eighty-four and eighty-one eighty-one one-hundredths acres erected expense EYCK Federal Board feet frame building funds gentlemen GILBERT N give Government property Harpers Ferry HAUGEN hospital House of Representatives inaccessible institute JACOWAY JONES KINCHELOE kite shelter known as Mount LAMKIN land Loudoun and Clarke maintain MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan miles Mount Weather observatory operate organization Public Health Service PURNELL purpose recommended rehabilitated responsibility road Secretary of Agriculture Secretary of War Shenandoah Valley station stone building submit TEN EYCK thing TINCHER tion transfer Treasury tubercular two-story frame Valley Virginia Vocational Board Vocational Education War Department Washington Weather Bureau
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Page 19 - ... acknowledged the same to be their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.
Page 20 - In the absence of the President his duties shall be performed by the senior Vice-President present.
Page 18 - States, and a majority citizens and residents of the District of Columbia, desiring to associate ourselves as a corporation pursuant to the provisions of Title 29 of Chapter 6 of the District of Columbia Code (1940) do hereby certify as follows: First.
Page 29 - The grounds have an area of 84.81 acres, are roughly square in outline, lying on both sides of the ridge, the top of which is 1,725 feet above sea level and about 1,200 feet above the valleys on either side. It overlooks to the west the entire Shenandoah Valley from Strasburg to Harpers Ferry and to the east all that portion of PiedmontVirginia Valley between the Blue Ridge and the Bull Run Mountains.
Page 43 - I request that the bill be inserted at this point in the record. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, it will be so ordered.
Page 32 - In connection with investigations in terrestrial magnetism; cellar under each ; the walls are about 4 feet thick, of double construction, packed with sawdust to secure constant temperature conditions within ; cost 15, 904. 55 Stables : 1 two-story frame and stone stable and 1 two-story frame stable ; cost 2, 800.