Word: bouldered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offices, warehouses, golf clubs, courts, theatres, museums, station, lecture halls, factories, prisons and all the other structures required by 120 million U. S. people, is at present conducted by only 10,000 U. S. practitioners? one man to every chunk of population the size of Englewood, N. J., or Boulder, Col., or Tuscaloosa...
...What river would be affected by the federal Boulder Dam project...
...night last week at 2:30 a. m., Mrs. Hiram Johnson, a weary spectator of the filibuster against her husband's Boulder Dam bill, looked down from the Senate gallery on 29 Senators. Some were sprawled out on the lounges, asleep; Floor Leader Curtis and some others were said to have been rolling dice; other Senators, bleary-eyed, were listening to Senator Ashurst of Arizona, who was talking about a number of things...
...chair. Vice President Dawes had left at 10 p. m. and Mr. Moses had done the heavy night work. Early in the morning Mr. Dawes returned. . . . At last, a quorum was present. But the filibusterers* kept the floor, allowed no one to move a vote on the Boulder Dam bill. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, co-author of the bill, had sat up all night trying to get a vote. The filibusterers were glad to have other Senators relieve them during the day with debate on Muscle Shoals, alien property and Prohibition bills. At 4:30 p. m., after...
Three days later, the Senate refused to apply the closure rule on his bill. The result: the Boulder Dam project is likely to be doomed this session. The question asked by many: what is the Boulder...