Word: bouldered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always had a leaning toward Rational Progressive policies." He has never stood for public office before and "was a very much surprised man" when, in August, the Farmer-Laborites asked him to run. He accepted, promising Farm Relief, a Prohibition referendum, States' rights, the Smith program for Boulder Dam, the G. O. P. policy on immigration, "adequate" Federal flood control, a non-partisan Cabinet...
Arizona. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, famed Boulder Dam filibusterer, handily won his Democratic renomination. Democrat George Wylie Paul Hunt. Arizona's habitual (1911-19; 1923-28) Governor, was put up for an eighth term. If Arizona goes in November as in September, Senator Ashurst will be re-elected by three-to-one over Republican Nominee Ralph H. Cameron. Governor Hunt's opponent will be Judge John C. Phillips...
Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West called, to bring the President up to date on the Boulder Dam (Colorado River) project and also, presumably, on the Hoover campaign as seen from Washington...
...There is but one limitation [to the growth of Los Angeles] which looms, . . . and that is adequate water supply. That can and must be assured from the Colorado River. . . . We want the greatest reservoir and the highest dam at Boulder Canyon that the engineers will recommend and I am hopeful that the project will receive favorable action from the present Congress...
...There have been a half-dozen separate engineering reports, pro and con, on Boulder Dam. Nominee Hoover apparently referred to the commission of five engineers, appointed last spring at the Senate's behest by the Secretary of the Interior, to restudy the project and report once more this Autumn. This commission began its work last week, at Denver...