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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... art - crafts and fine arts . Therefore we will have all the arts from the tilling of the soil to the presentation of symphonies , and the sciences from the analysis of the soil to the measure of electric currents . Our agricultural land ...
... art - crafts and fine arts . Therefore we will have all the arts from the tilling of the soil to the presentation of symphonies , and the sciences from the analysis of the soil to the measure of electric currents . Our agricultural land ...
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... Arts Club , which I helped to found , and in the course of this month the general Federation of Women's Clubs are going to indorse that at their meeting in Salt Lake City . They have a membership of two million and a half and they are ...
... Arts Club , which I helped to found , and in the course of this month the general Federation of Women's Clubs are going to indorse that at their meeting in Salt Lake City . They have a membership of two million and a half and they are ...
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... artist to call us to our proper places . When the master mind comprehends and the people all understand , then we will spell the word , and then it will be each for all and all for each in this great mosaic of happiness . A nation of ...
... artist to call us to our proper places . When the master mind comprehends and the people all understand , then we will spell the word , and then it will be each for all and all for each in this great mosaic of happiness . A nation of ...
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... arts would want to find a place in which we make the fine arts an essential feature . Mr. MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan . Will you expect contributions of money by Congress ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . We may or may not , sir . I do not know whether ...
... arts would want to find a place in which we make the fine arts an essential feature . Mr. MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan . Will you expect contributions of money by Congress ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . We may or may not , sir . I do not know whether ...
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... arts and sciences in the District of Columbia and vicinity , for the purpose of teaching industrial and mechanical arts , the crafts and fine arts , and the tilling of the soil . 3. The term of existence of this corporation shall be ...
... arts and sciences in the District of Columbia and vicinity , for the purpose of teaching industrial and mechanical arts , the crafts and fine arts , and the tilling of the soil . 3. The term of existence of this corporation shall be ...
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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.