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...Hoover last week derived immense personal satisfaction from one official act. He proclaimed effective the water-rights compact on the Colorado River, agreed to by six out of seven interested states.* The proclamation cleared away the last obstacle to actual construction of a giant dam on the Colorado near Boulder or Black Canyons...
...year-old interstate stalemate which blocked the river's development had been broken by Herbert Hoover, not as President but as Secretary of Commerce and chairman of the Colorado River Commission. There he had brought the states into sufficient agreement to make Boulder Dam possible. All smiles, the President said: "This compact . . . represents the most important action ever taken in that fashion under the Constitution. It opens the avenue for some hope of the settlement of other regional questions between states rather than the imposition of those problems on the federal government...
...Switzerland while his resolution is still high, there to climb his favorite mountain by an almost impossible route. If he should slip a foothold, or lose his ice-axe, while making every honest effort to climb, it would be fate, and not cowardly suicide. Perched perilously on a vertical boulder of ice, exhausted, he is on the verge of loosening hand and toe grip when he hears a call of distress from above. In such a crisis a Montague man can do only one thing-keep on climbing...
...Adopted the Senate's changes in the Boulder Dam bill. The bill went to the President...