Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted for: Tax Reduction (1922, 1924, 1927, 1929), Boulder Dam (1928), Farm Relief (1929), the Jones ("Five & Ten") law, Reapportionment (1929), Tariff...
Beaten in Congress, angry Arizona last week began in the U. S. Supreme Court a final attack upon Boulder Dam* The court allowed the State, through K. Berry Peterson, its attorney general, to bring suit against California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur in an attempt to have the Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act declared unconstitutional...
Arizona's filibuster could not beat the Boulder Dam bill in the Senate. Its pleas for a veto were ignored. Last week's suit released all its pent-up legalistic fury against what it considers a rape of its sovereign rights and resources...
...Though Secretary of the Interior Wilbur renamed this work the Hoover Dam (TIME, Sept. 29), its legal title remains fixed by the Boulder Canyon Project Act. Newsmen and headline writers have been slow to accept Secretary Wilbur's change...
JOHN L. BACON President Boulder Dam Association San Diego, Calif...