Word: 200th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enthralled local Chamber of Commerce, Congressman Sol Bloom, member of the House Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions, recommended that Brooklyn hold a world's fair and permanent international exposition in 1932 in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington. He proposed the use of 2,200 acres of undeveloped park land on Jamaica Bay, the erection of buildings with 5,000,000 square feet of floor space for exhibits by the U. S. and 46 foreign governments, a stadium to hold 200,000 people, parking space for 100,000 automobiles, the highest tower...
...University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), anticipating its 200th birthday in 1940, announced, last week, that it would open a campaign next month for a fund of $45,650,000. Of this amount, $27,700,000 would be set aside for endowing the various schools and departments; $17,950,000 would go into land, buildings, equipment. The present endowment of Pennsylvania is only $10,208,000. Largest endowments...
...200th anniversary of 1732 (Page...
...Coolidge designated John Hays Hammond, engineer, to serve on a commission to arrange for the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington...
...Visitors at the White House included: the Massachusetts delegation in Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, for a "social" breakfast; the Congressional members of a Commission appointed to arrange the celebration of the 200th anniversary (in 1932) of the birth of George Washington, for breakfast; Frank J. Irwin, National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans to discuss plans for adequate hospital facilities for veterans; Mickey Walker, welterweight boxing champion, to present a pair of five-ounce boxing gloves with the injunction: "Use 'em on your next Congress;" George Spring Meyer, of Reno, to present a photograph of the graduating class...