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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... proposed to have ample acreage and make the work highly educational . The institute will provide for that interval between the hospital and full ability to wrestle with the world , and also provides for these on the verge of needing ...
... proposed to have ample acreage and make the work highly educational . The institute will provide for that interval between the hospital and full ability to wrestle with the world , and also provides for these on the verge of needing ...
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... propose to locate in a beautiful and inspiring country near Washington , which will keep the institute in accord ... proposed to erect a shrine to liberty , designed and erected by the soldiers who served their country in this war as ...
... propose to locate in a beautiful and inspiring country near Washington , which will keep the institute in accord ... proposed to erect a shrine to liberty , designed and erected by the soldiers who served their country in this war as ...
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... propose to have a study of design in mosaic , we might in this way learn the value of each little stone in the picture and thus learn the relative value of each individual in the picture of our civilization . Let us imagine 100,000,000 ...
... propose to have a study of design in mosaic , we might in this way learn the value of each little stone in the picture and thus learn the relative value of each individual in the picture of our civilization . Let us imagine 100,000,000 ...
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... to see it . Mr. JONES . Is it planned to organize branch institutes in various parts of the country or just have the one ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . We propose to have this 10 SOLDIERS ' INSTITUTE - OCCUPATION OF MOUNT WEATHER .
... to see it . Mr. JONES . Is it planned to organize branch institutes in various parts of the country or just have the one ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . We propose to have this 10 SOLDIERS ' INSTITUTE - OCCUPATION OF MOUNT WEATHER .
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... propose to have this for the District of Columbia and if it can be well and successfully done others will be formulated in several parts of the country as may be needed under cooperation with the original organization . Mr. TEN EYCK ...
... propose to have this for the District of Columbia and if it can be well and successfully done others will be formulated in several parts of the country as may be needed under cooperation with the original organization . Mr. TEN EYCK ...
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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.