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...President Coolidge took up a pen and wrote "Calvin." He took up another pen and wrote "Cool." With a third pen he wrote "idge" and as he dotted the "i" the Swing-Johnson bill, authorizing the Federal Boulder Dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, became effective. California's Senator Johnson and Representative Swing stood by, rejoicing over their seven-year job, done at last. Each legislator got one of the pens. The third pen was handed to a Hearst newspaperman. Dr. Elwood Mead, chief of the U. S. Reclamation Service (Interior Department), immediately sent a telegram...
...Debated, debated, debated the Boulder Dam bill and passed it; sent the measure to conference (see below...
More pleasing were the following dedication ceremonies-of a boulder and a monument-at Kitty Hawk, N. C., where man first flew, the gusty 17th of December...
...Debated, debated, debated their unfinished carry-over from last session, the Boulder Dam bill. To facilitate passage this session, Senator Johnson (Calif.), sponsor, substituted the Boulder Dam bill passed by the House last session for his own much-filibustered measure, then re-substituted his own text after the House's enacting clause. Otherwise the bill, if passed by the Senate, would be new legislation, subject to delay when it returns to the House...
Ahead of them stretches a flexible program. Nine apropriations bills must be passed before March 4 to finance the governmental machine after July 1. Boulder dam, 15 new cruisers for the Navy, the Kellogg anti-war treaty-these are the Senate's immediate job. In the House is gossip of a rivers and harbors bill, of reapportionment. Farm relief casts a streaky shadow of uncertainty across all plans and farther in the background lurks tariff revision...