United States Congressional Serial Set

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938 - 16 pages
Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
 

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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.

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