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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... fund if it is known that the Soldiers ' Institute have a marble quarry , is going to quarry the stone and cut it , and that the building will be largely put up by the work of the rehabilitated soldiers who are now in hospitals and ...
... fund if it is known that the Soldiers ' Institute have a marble quarry , is going to quarry the stone and cut it , and that the building will be largely put up by the work of the rehabilitated soldiers who are now in hospitals and ...
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... funds has it available for its own use ? ent . Mr. BUSH - BROWN . It has not 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 ...
... funds has it available for its own use ? ent . Mr. BUSH - BROWN . It has not 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 ...
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... funds . Mr. BUSH - Brown . We shall have funds , sir . Mr. JONES . You hope to have funds , but you have not arranged for that . Mr. BUSH - BROWN . There is no question about our getting funds for such a purpose as this . There is no ...
... funds . Mr. BUSH - Brown . We shall have funds , sir . Mr. JONES . You hope to have funds , but you have not arranged for that . Mr. BUSH - BROWN . There is no question about our getting funds for such a purpose as this . There is no ...
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... funds to take care of him . Mr. TEN EYCK . In other words , you do not discriminate in any way between the man who has been wounded and one who has not Mr. BUSH - BROWN . The wounded men have the preference . My experience in school ...
... funds to take care of him . Mr. TEN EYCK . In other words , you do not discriminate in any way between the man who has been wounded and one who has not Mr. BUSH - BROWN . The wounded men have the preference . My experience in school ...
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... funds ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . We intend to have funds of our own . Mr. MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan . You intend to acquire some place , whether you get this place or not ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . Yes , sir . Mr. MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan . How do you ...
... funds ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . We intend to have funds of our own . Mr. MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan . You intend to acquire some place , whether you get this place or not ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . Yes , sir . Mr. MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan . How do you ...
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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.