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Washington Bicentennial Commission Formed for George Washington
John Dickinson Sherman reports on the United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of George Washington's birth. President Coolidge chairs ex officio. Dawes and Longworth hold key roles. The commission plans plans, funding, and cooperation with states and nations, aiming for a global observance in 1932.
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Sorge Washington
United States of America
Au Dimmian
Congress
United States Commission
Deorge Washington
Calvin Coolidge
General Washington
Washington
Washingtom
America
George Washington
United States
Senate
House of Representatives
Fine Arts
Commission On Fine Arts
Coolidges
Charles, G.dawes
House
Nicholas Longworth
Thomas Sterling
South Dakota
William Tyler Page
Maryland
Coolidge
Anthony Wayne Cook
Pennsylvania
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
John Dickinson Sherman
Colorado
General Federation of Women's Chibs
Henry Ford
Michigan
Hanford MacNider
Town
American Legion
C. Bascom Slemp
Washington, D. C
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Edward B. Piper
Portland
Ore
Frank A. Munsey
New York City
Munsey
Albert Bushnell Hart
Simeon D. Fess
Ohio
Selden If, Spencer
Missouri
Carter Glass
Virginia
Thomas F. Bayard
Delaware
Willis C. Hawley
Oregon
John Q. Tilson
Connecticut
John N. Garner
Texas
Joseph W. Burns
Tennessee
Cambridge
John Coolidge
Watertown
Mass
Daughters of the American Revolution
John Sherman
Bunk
Sudbury
Senator Fess
Senator Baynard
U. S
Longworth
Theodore Roosevelt
Representative Tilson
Garner
Hawley
Burns
Edgar B. Piper
Portland Oregonian
Frank Munsey
Charles N. Hughes