Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supporters of both the Army-Reclamation Bureau project and the MVA have been fighting it out ever since 1944. In August of that year, when Senator James Murray of Montana introduced a bill to set up an MVA, governors in eight of the nine Missouri Basin states came out cautiously for Army flood control proposals and the Reclamation Bureau's plans for irrigation development. In November, the Army and the Reclamation Bureau (headed by Major General Lewis Pick and W. G. Sloan) joined forces in a compromise; Senator Murray promptly accused them of hastening their agreement just to thwart...
...billion dollar Flood Control Act signed by President Roosevelt in December, 1944, 400 million was carmarked for the Missouri River. Since all construction was to wait for the war's end, there was still a chance that MVA could be set up to do the administering. Murray brought his bill in to the new Congress in February, 1945, but there it was effectively snagged in a web of hostile committees. On the outside, opposition to MVA was sparked by private power companies, the coal industry, and conservative Mid Westerners fearful of what was termed "New Deal socialism...
...eliminated from my mind the erroncous idea that TVA was of a socialistic, regimenting, paternalistic character, dabbling in social service, character-building, folk dancing and other foreign fields," he said. But President Truman's original enthusiasm for MVA was waning, and Congress was happy to let the controversial Murray Bill gather dust...
Behind the plate, Berg has been using Gordon Kilpatrick and lately, Sherrill Houston. When spring football practice ends, Bill Rosenau, former Andover receiver, will be available. Rosenau has been practicing but cannot play. Pitcher George Emmons, also out for football, is able to play, but cannot attend practice sessions. Catching has been a sore sport for Berg, and he insists his staff "must improve." The outfield has proved to be another Crimson weakness. Reilly, another Roxbury graduate and brother of Brendon Reilly who pitched for the Varsity last spring, John Simons, and Ernie Wohler had been operating in the outer...
From bow to stroke, the following eight will launch Harvard's bid for world's championship, barring further pestilence: Mike Scully, Don Felt, Ted Reynolds, Dick Emmet, Taggart, Frank Strong, Paul Knaplund, and Bill Curwen. Sam Mantel will handle vocal duties from the stern...