Public Buildings and Grounds: Hearing Before the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, House of Representatives, on H.R. 6559, Public Buildings BillU.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - Public buildings |
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Additional land ALMON amount appropriation Arlington Memorial Bridge authorized Available Occupied facilities Avenue bill pending BRAND BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS built Bureau BUSBY cent CHAIRMAN CHARLES BRAND CLARK Colonel SHERRILL commission COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC construction Contract hospitals CORSON Cradock District of Columbia ELLIOTT erected estimate Extension and remodeling feet fireproof FRANK PARK FREDERICKS FRITZ G GARBER gentlemen Government HINES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Housing Corporation Increase limit IRWIN KERR KOPP LANHAM lease Lee Highway limit of cost Lincoln Memorial located MAGEE matter memorial bridge ment MILLER Mount Alto Navy OLIVER parks Portland post office post-office building present building President proposition public buildings purchase question recommended SCOTT WOLFF Secretary Senate soldiers statement Staten Island Street Supervising Architect tion Total Treasury Department tuberculosis United States Veterans Virginia Walter Reed Walter Reed Hospital Washington WEAKLEY WETMORE WINSTON WOLFF York
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Page 8 - TO THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BY THE COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION RESPECTING A NATIONAL ARCHIVE BUILDING.
Page 25 - Senate, the chairman and the ranking minority member of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representatives, and the Architect of the Capitol.
Page 2 - War, to build on practically the same line a new bridge in lieu thereof. said new bridge to be for railroad purposes only and to be adapted for two or more railway tracks, the Long Bridge to be removed and the new bridge constructed within four years from the date of the passage of this Act.
Page 39 - States, which a late President, a man of determined purpose and inflexible will, but patriotic heart, desired to span with arches of ever-enduring granite, symbolical of the firmly cemented union of the North and the South.
Page 77 - Bureau is unable to get these men from their homes for these long distances in order that they may be hospitalized in institutions having sufficient beds. Mr. TAYLOR. Is this the only hospital available for World War veterans in your State ? Mr. WILLIAMSON. This is the only hospital available — -Battle Mountain Sanatarium. I might say it is one of the best institutions of its kind in the country. I have visited a number of them, and while there may be some that are equipped with better facilities...
Page 6 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United /States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to acquire, on behalf of the United States, by gift or purchase...
Page 3 - The Council has sanctioned an expenditure of £5,700 for the purchase of the land and the erection of the building, for which the tender of a local contractor has been accepted. The number of shipments from Lowestoft in 1900 was 285, of which 20 were first shipments.
Page 107 - Bureau, shall be available for veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine insurrection, and the Boxer rebellion, suffering from neuropsychiatric or tubercular ailments and diseases, including transportation as granted to those receiving compensation and hospitalization under the War Risk Insurance Act.
Page 41 - ... rendered, if the committee so desires. The CHAIRMAN. Does the committee care to have that in the record ? Mr. LANHAM. I do not believe we want that in the hospitalization. General HINES. That will be before you in the other report. The CHAIRMAN. Well, we will not put it in here. Mr. ALMON. General, I want to call your attention to the first section of the bill HR 5209. It does not seem to me that that section is as full as the caption. The caption reads, "To provide for the construction of additional...
Page 9 - January 1, 1916, so as to deprive employees therein of the additional compensation allowed civilian employees under the provisions of section 6 of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, if otherwise entitled thereto.