Legislation to Make "The Star Spangled Banner" the National Anthem: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 6429 and H.J. Res. 69, March 20, 1924 |
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... American Revolution , Washington , D. C ......... . Mr. John Martin , representing Bureau of American Ideals , New York City- . List of persons appearing before the committee in support of the bill . List of D. A. R. chapters and others ...
... American Revolution , Washington , D. C ......... . Mr. John Martin , representing Bureau of American Ideals , New York City- . List of persons appearing before the committee in support of the bill . List of D. A. R. chapters and others ...
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... American Revolution ; International Federa- tion of Catholic Alumna ; Society of the Ark and the Dove ; Society of Colonial Wars ; Maryland Council of Defense ; Colonial Dames : Maryland branch of National Congress of Mothers ; Maryland ...
... American Revolution ; International Federa- tion of Catholic Alumna ; Society of the Ark and the Dove ; Society of Colonial Wars ; Maryland Council of Defense ; Colonial Dames : Maryland branch of National Congress of Mothers ; Maryland ...
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... American Legion , Vet- erans of Foreign Wars , Disabled American Veterans of the World War , Daughters of the American Revolution , Sons of the American Revolution , Daughters of the War of 1812 , as well as letters of ap- proval from ...
... American Legion , Vet- erans of Foreign Wars , Disabled American Veterans of the World War , Daughters of the American Revolution , Sons of the American Revolution , Daughters of the War of 1812 , as well as letters of ap- proval from ...
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... American people , just as any other great na- tional anthem arises . It stood the test of over a hundred years , and ... Revolution , the Spanish - American War , and the men who died in the War of 1812. It is inseparably bound up with ...
... American people , just as any other great na- tional anthem arises . It stood the test of over a hundred years , and ... Revolution , the Spanish - American War , and the men who died in the War of 1812. It is inseparably bound up with ...
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... American side of the Revolutionary War . We met those men , and so , Mr ... Revolution , Ionia , Mich . , on March 11 , 1924 , as follows : Hon . GEORGE ... American Revolution , held last Saturday afternoon , a letter was read saying the ...
... American side of the Revolutionary War . We met those men , and so , Mr ... Revolution , Ionia , Mich . , on March 11 , 1924 , as follows : Hon . GEORGE ... American Revolution , held last Saturday afternoon , a letter was read saying the ...
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Page 20 - O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Page 15 - Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light. What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming-! And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there...
Page 24 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Page 20 - America! America! God shed his grace on thee Till nobler men keep once again Thy whiter jubilee! America the Beautiful By Katherine Lee Bates O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Page 20 - O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain. America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood, From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness.
Page 20 - O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern, impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America ! America ! God mend thine...
Page 15 - To Anacreon in Heaven, where he sat in full glee, A few sons of harmony sent a petition, That he their inspirer and patron would be ; When this answer...
Page 12 - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps
Page 1 - HR 6429, to make the Star-Spangled Banner the national anthem of the United States of America, which bill was introduced bv Mr. Linthicum ; also House Joint Resolution 69, proposing the adoption of the Star-Spangled Banner as the national anthem.
Page 14 - O Lord our God, arise! Scatter his enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks: On Thee our hopes we fix — God save us all!