Word: bouldered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated the Boulder Dam bill; passed it; sent it to the Senate...
...session was approaching,* and with it the last-moment votes for all manner of Federal outlay. Senator Smoot was going slowly with the Revenue Act and its $200,000,000 or so reduction of taxes. Some said his motive was to delay the Senate's vote on the Boulder Dam bill. But in the light of an announcement by Representative Snell of New York, trusted Administration man, it looked as though President Coolidge's ever-quick solicitude for the financial condition of the Government might have transcended the advisory and become legislative. At least, the President took note...
...Boulder...
...Debated, and postponed, the Boulder Dam bill...
...other weapon of similar functions. It fires 100 shots per minute and is valued for spraying death into a city street or narrow mountain defile. U. S. gangsters as well as police admire and use Thompson submachine guns. They are fired from the hip or from a rest on boulder, windowsill or automobile tonneau...