Philadelphia National Park Commission: Hearings Before the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2851, a Bill Creating the Philadelphia National Park CommissionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1945 - 92 pages |
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... course the Government should take with respect to the establishment of this park . I want to thank you gentlemen again and to express my sincere appreciation for what you have so far done for us here in Phila- delphia . [ Applause ...
... course the Government should take with respect to the establishment of this park . I want to thank you gentlemen again and to express my sincere appreciation for what you have so far done for us here in Phila- delphia . [ Applause ...
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... course , not only because of these events that I have indicated is this historic ground , but within a stone's throw figuratively of this building there lived all of these great figures in early American history , with whose lives even ...
... course , not only because of these events that I have indicated is this historic ground , but within a stone's throw figuratively of this building there lived all of these great figures in early American history , with whose lives even ...
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... course , the first part of the country settled . Naturally it has the oldest structures . Some of them have passed away . I of course should have mentioned Boston- Boston with Faneuil Hall , the old South Church and the old North Church ...
... course , the first part of the country settled . Naturally it has the oldest structures . Some of them have passed away . I of course should have mentioned Boston- Boston with Faneuil Hall , the old South Church and the old North Church ...
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... course , upon what the National Park Service or the agency in charge might choose to spend , and the esti- mates that we have of the cost of suitable landscaping , in line with the plans of Mr. Roy Larsen , the architect of Independence ...
... course , upon what the National Park Service or the agency in charge might choose to spend , and the esti- mates that we have of the cost of suitable landscaping , in line with the plans of Mr. Roy Larsen , the architect of Independence ...
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... course , it cannot be done for so great a number of places , but the difference in this case is the im- portance of the buildings concerned . It is really true that the Park Service , through its former Director and present Director ...
... course , it cannot be done for so great a number of places , but the difference in this case is the im- portance of the buildings concerned . It is really true that the Park Service , through its former Director and present Director ...
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accessories affording dignified affording dignified approaches American Legion Auxiliary areas and appropriate assist in bringing Association to safeguard BARRETT of Wyoming bill H. R. BRADLEY Carpenters CHAIRMAN city of Philadelphia Colonial Wars commission Congress Hall conserving the historical consideration to measures dangerous and unsightly delphia demolition of dangerous endorses the purposes enshrining the symbol Fairmount Park Federal Government Franklin Square further Resolved gentlemen give favorable consideration Gold Star Mothers HADDONFIELD Hall National Historical hallowed grounds HARDIN PETERSON heartily endorses historic buildings House of Representatives improve its surroundings Independence Hall Association Independence Hall National introduced looking Judge LEWIS KNEIPP LEMKE liberty and freedom Liberty Bell National Historical Park National Park Service national shrines patriotic Pennsylvania Phila place landscaped areas power to assist president resolution safeguard this venerated September 27 Society of Colonial symbol of liberty ultimate creation United unsightly buildings urges its members venerated American shrine Washington
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Page 80 - I hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy* of a resolution adopted by the board of trustees of the Welfare and Recreational Association of Public Buildings and Grounds, Inc., at a meeting held on Tuesday., May 26, 1942.
Page 80 - Hon. J. HARDIN PETERSON, Chairman, Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives.
Page 88 - National Historical Shrines" as an all inclusive one. Of special historical interest and significance is the House of Representatives Bill No. 2851, "An Act to provide for investigating the matter of the establishment of a national park in the old part of the city of Philadelphia, for the purpose of conserving the historical objects and buildings therein.
Page 53 - Most vociferous, though not the most effective, among pressure groups are the various "patriotic" organizations. These fall into three types. There are the ancestor-worshippers like the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Sons of the American Revolution, and...
Page 12 - PENNSYLVANIA Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George...
Page 13 - VIRGINIA George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton NORTH CAROLINA William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn SOUTH CAROLINA Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton GEORGIA Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton...
Page 24 - There is one other thing I should like to say. and that is that...
Page 44 - ... thus resulting in wide differences of educational opportunity, and Whereas existing educational inequalities cannot be removed even though the States adopt modern tax systems and allot a suitable proportion of resulting revenues to the financing of education; therefore be it Resolved, That the General Federation of Women's Clubs in convention assembled June 1946, goes on record as favoring Federal support of public education without Federal control of educational policies and programs.
Page 18 - Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I do not know that I can add anything of great value to what has already been said.
Page 78 - National Ladies' Auxiliary, Jewish War Veterans of the United States National Patriotic Council National Society of Colonial Descendants of America National Society, Daughters of the Union (1861-65), Inc.