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acres act of Congress additional Air Corps airplane airship American Expeditionary Forces appropriation approved July Army serial artillery authorized awarded barracks battle field BEN LEAR bill branch building Bureau cent CHAIRMAN Colonel LANDERS command commemoration COMMITTEE ON MILITARY Company Congress approved construction contract cost Department Disabled Volunteer Soldiers distinguished-service Division domiciliary enemy facilities FECHET Federal fire gallantry in action GOTT Government hangars heroism in action Highland Falls HILL HINES Home for Disabled hospital Infantry Johnson City KAHN lease lieutenant located machine-gun Major KENNEDY Major ROSE MCSWAIN medal medal of honor ment miles MILITARY AFFAIRS National Home Navy North Island officers operations present quarters RANSLEY recommendation REECE Residence at enlistment road Rockwell Field Secretary Secretary of War sergeant STAFFORD statement SUMMERALL tion United States Army United States Volunteers veterans WAINWRIGHT War Department Washington West Point WURZBACH Zinsser
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Page 59 - The establishment of an Institution of this kind, upon a respectable and extensive Basis, has ever been considered by me as an object of primary importance to this Country...
Page 19 - States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings...
Page 11 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States...
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Page 48 - March 28, 1930, the Director of the Bureau of the Budget advised the Department of Agriculture that the program of expenditures contemplated by this proposed legislation would not be in conflict with the financial program of the President if the bills were amended so as to authorize annual appropriations of not to exceed the amount specified.
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Page 53 - Therefore, be it Resolved that the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York...
Page 12 - That the consent of the state of Maine is hereby given, in accordance with the seventeenth clause, eighth section, of the first article of the constitution of the United States, to the acquisition by the United States, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, of any land in this state required for sites for custom houses, court houses, post offices, arsenals or other public buildings whatever, or for any other purposes of the government.