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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... asked for his plans to resume specie payments he replied he had no " plans " . The way to resume payments is to resume . The injured soldiers are applying for hospital care and education faster than can be provided for them , and it is ...
... asked for his plans to resume specie payments he replied he had no " plans " . The way to resume payments is to resume . The injured soldiers are applying for hospital care and education faster than can be provided for them , and it is ...
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... asked for any contributions at pres- We were first desiring to obtain recognition from the Govern- ment and a plan of cooperation , so that we might have the right to ask for contributions . This can be successful only by the coopera ...
... asked for any contributions at pres- We were first desiring to obtain recognition from the Govern- ment and a plan of cooperation , so that we might have the right to ask for contributions . This can be successful only by the coopera ...
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... asking these questions simply for information . Mr. BUSH - BROWN . Yes , sir ; I am glad to have you ask them . Mr. TINCHER . Are you incorporated ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . Yes , sir . Mr. TINCHER . Under the laws of what State ? Mr. BUSH ...
... asking these questions simply for information . Mr. BUSH - BROWN . Yes , sir ; I am glad to have you ask them . Mr. TINCHER . Are you incorporated ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . Yes , sir . Mr. TINCHER . Under the laws of what State ? Mr. BUSH ...
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... asked for any . We wanted to have this meeting here and to establish a spirit of cooperation with what the Government is doing and to have the use of this Weather Bureau property as the home . Mr. MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan . Your institute ...
... asked for any . We wanted to have this meeting here and to establish a spirit of cooperation with what the Government is doing and to have the use of this Weather Bureau property as the home . Mr. MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan . Your institute ...
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... asked , it was given ; another million was asked , and it was given ; more millions were asked and given . Yet there is fault found in this country as to those who have administered the affairs , those to whom the money was intrusted ...
... asked , it was given ; another million was asked , and it was given ; more millions were asked and given . Yet there is fault found in this country as to those who have administered the affairs , those to whom the money was intrusted ...
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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.