United States Congressional Serial SetU.S. Government Printing Office, 1938 - 16 pages Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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ACCEPTED DESIGN ALTERNATIVE DESIGN Arts was consulted assistance and advice AUGUSTINE LONERGAN available until expended BIRD'S-EYE VIEW Figure Boylan Budget choose an architect city of Washington colonnades Commis Commission of Fine consider and formulate contingent and miscellaneous contract or contracts counter suggestion Delano designed in 1926 District of Columbia domed ELBERT D entablature February 17 feet high fiscal year 1938 Fiske Kimball formulating plans GIBBONEY H. P. Caemmerer Hollins House of Representatives inscriptions JEFFERSON COOLIDGE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL BIRD'S-EYE Jefferson Memorial Commission Jefferson Memorial Foundation John Russell Pope July 13 Lincoln Memorial March 29 Meeting of Commission Meeting of Jefferson MEMORIAL BIRD'S-EYE VIEW Memorial Commission repre memorial to Theodore memorial to Thomas mission National Capital Park Pantheon design Park and Planning pedestal permanent memorial Planning Commission represented plans for designing portico scheme Senate and House sion south axis stylobate Surmounting Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson Memorial Tidal Basin unanimous WASHINGTON MONUMENT White House
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Page 3 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby established a commission to be known as the United States Pilgrim Tercentenary Commission (hereinafter referred to as the commission...
Page 4 - States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Board when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $25.
Page 7 - The details of this supplemental estimate, the necessity therefor, and the reasons for its submission at this time are set forth in the letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, transmitted herewith, with whose comments and observations I concur.
Page 7 - The foregoing estimate of appropriation is required to meet a contingency which has arisen since the transmission of the Budget for the fiscal year 1942, and approval is recommended.
Page 4 - In formulating its plans and recommendations for the memorial, the Commission will avail itself of the assistance and advice of the Commission of Fine Arts, the National Capital Planning Commission, and the National Capital Regional Planning Council, and such other agencies as may be interested in this proposed memorial which is intended to honor one of our most distinguished citizens and Presidents. As the work...
Page 14 - I have sworn on the altar of GOD ETERNAL hostility to every form of tyranny over the MIND OF MAN," hostility which THE AMERICAN PEOPLE make their own!!
Page 14 - Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested His supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint...
Page 4 - , for the purpose of considering and formulating plans for designing and constructing a permanent memorial in the city of Washington. District of Columbia.
Page 3 - Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, is located on a low foothill above the Rivanna River.
Page 14 - Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Founder of the University of Virginia.