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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... setting apart In- dependence Hall and the Liberty Bell as the No. 1 shrine of the United States . Now , what was the first step ? That was when the Federal Government signed a contract with the city setting apart this group of buildings ...
... setting apart In- dependence Hall and the Liberty Bell as the No. 1 shrine of the United States . Now , what was the first step ? That was when the Federal Government signed a contract with the city setting apart this group of buildings ...
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... setting up here in Philadelphia this national park . Of course , these details are more for the commission , when appointed , I realize , but I think you would want to know them , in order that you may be properly informed . Gentlemen ...
... setting up here in Philadelphia this national park . Of course , these details are more for the commission , when appointed , I realize , but I think you would want to know them , in order that you may be properly informed . Gentlemen ...
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... setting apart this area as an area of national and international im- portance . There is an appeal - there is a substantial benefit that would accrue to us , but Independence National Park would have a much greater significance than a ...
... setting apart this area as an area of national and international im- portance . There is an appeal - there is a substantial benefit that would accrue to us , but Independence National Park would have a much greater significance than a ...
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... ready to do anything that I can to foster this project , and I feel that we should have this land to the north of Independence Hall one way or the other . Then we can have that magnificent setting 16 PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL PARK COMMISSION.
... ready to do anything that I can to foster this project , and I feel that we should have this land to the north of Independence Hall one way or the other . Then we can have that magnificent setting 16 PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL PARK COMMISSION.
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... setting that these glorious old buildings deserve . If I could only bring home to you the reverence that people have for Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell . If you could see , as I have seen , these foreigners who come down here ...
... setting that these glorious old buildings deserve . If I could only bring home to you the reverence that people have for Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell . If you could see , as I have seen , these foreigners who come down here ...
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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.