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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... battle fields of Europe , men who had fought Napoleon under the great General Wellington , and had now been released because Na- poleon had been sent to the island of Elba , the war having practi- cally ceased in Europe . Those were the ...
... battle fields of Europe , men who had fought Napoleon under the great General Wellington , and had now been released because Na- poleon had been sent to the island of Elba , the war having practi- cally ceased in Europe . Those were the ...
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... battle at North Point and Fort McHenry was the decisive battle of the War of 1812. We have histories which describe the great , decisive battles of the world ; but a battle , though it may be small , may be a decisive battle just as ...
... battle at North Point and Fort McHenry was the decisive battle of the War of 1812. We have histories which describe the great , decisive battles of the world ; but a battle , though it may be small , may be a decisive battle just as ...
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... battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more ? Their blood has wash'd 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 ...
... battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more ? Their blood has wash'd 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 ...
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... battle's confusion , A home and a country they swore they'd leave us no more . A home and a country ? No : Key said , " A home in the country they would leave us no more . " That is all they swore to do ; and they did it so far as they ...
... battle's confusion , A home and a country they swore they'd leave us no more . A home and a country ? No : Key said , " A home in the country they would leave us no more . " That is all they swore to do ; and they did it so far as they ...
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... battles or wars or murder or ignorance . Mr. YATES . What are the words that these words have been sub- stituted for ? Have you the text ? Mr. TUITE . Yes , I have . The CHAIRMAN . In reading the text of the four stanzas , you will find ...
... battles or wars or murder or ignorance . Mr. YATES . What are the words that these words have been sub- stituted for ? Have you the text ? Mr. TUITE . Yes , I have . The CHAIRMAN . In reading the text of the four stanzas , you will find ...
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act of Parliament American anthem American Legion American Revolution Anacreon in Heaven Applause Army and Navy attack Baltimore Banner the national battle battle's confusion bill H. R. British Chairman and gentlemen colleague committee Congress County Chapter course Daughters of 1812 DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN EMANUEL CELLER England flag Fort McHenry Francis Scott Key glad Grand Army HERSEY House joint resolution hymn indorsed introduced Ionia Iowa John Stafford Smith Joint Resolution 69 Katharine Lee Bates legislative letter LINTHICUM Maryland MAYNADIER McHenry melodies ment military MONTAGUE monument national anthem national song Navy have adopted North Point official Ohio organizations patriotic president question Save the King Secretary sense sing Spangled Banner speak Star Star-Spangled Ban Star-Spangled Banner STATEMENT Stetson Stevens Thomson Mason SUMNERS sung third verse Thomson Mason Chapter tion to-day troops TUITE United vauntingly swore words YORK CITY
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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!