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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... kind of service which made Athens the center of Greek culture and inspired the people of the Middle Ages to erect ... kind of government , and it will be better understood by this kind of visual expression of its meaning in a temple to ...
... kind of service which made Athens the center of Greek culture and inspired the people of the Middle Ages to erect ... kind of government , and it will be better understood by this kind of visual expression of its meaning in a temple to ...
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... kind and character in the United States . Mr. BUSH - BROWN . I think not , sir . This is the only one that is organized on this basis , and we are obtaining the cooperation of the various patriotic societies and the various military ...
... kind and character in the United States . Mr. BUSH - BROWN . I think not , sir . This is the only one that is organized on this basis , and we are obtaining the cooperation of the various patriotic societies and the various military ...
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... kind , but the general . purpose is to have a home that will give happiness to the soldiers while they are in the process of rehabilitation . If in doing that there is a certain class coming in who merely by their presence might be the ...
... kind , but the general . purpose is to have a home that will give happiness to the soldiers while they are in the process of rehabilitation . If in doing that there is a certain class coming in who merely by their presence might be the ...
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... kind of cooperation do you expect or would you like ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . We should like to have the cooperation of the hospital people and the Federal Vocational Board . Mr. MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan . In what way ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . In ...
... kind of cooperation do you expect or would you like ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . We should like to have the cooperation of the hospital people and the Federal Vocational Board . Mr. MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan . In what way ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . In ...
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... kind of a responsibility , and if it sends its men there incurring some kind of responsibility , and if there is not money , the Treasury will be called upon to furnish it . It might be a very proper use of the money and Congress might ...
... kind of a responsibility , and if it sends its men there incurring some kind of responsibility , and if there is not money , the Treasury will be called upon to furnish it . It might be a very proper use of the money and Congress might ...
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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.