Word: canyon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them in San Francisco in 1877. In the preceding summer the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians had been driven westward out of the Black Hills by U. S. troops sent to avenge the Custer massacre, and for the first time a miner's scalp was safe in Gold Run Canyon, site of the first prospecting. The rich lodes at Homestake soon grew richer as the shafts drove deeper. Astutely managed after George Hearst's death by his shrewd widow, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and after 1914 by her cousin's son, retiring Edward Hardy Clark, who is still president...
...dedication of the dam. the die-hard Los Angeles Times, whose publisher Harry Chandler is a staunch friend of Citizen Hoover, stubbornly called it Hoover Dam except when directly quoting the President and Secretary Ickes. The project has never been named by law. Construction was authorized by "The Boulder Canyon Project Act." but the actual site was changed from Boulder Canyon to Black Canyon 20 miles distant. Customary procedure is to name a project after the act authorizing it, unless Congress decrees otherwise. Two Congressional bills introduced in 1929 and 1930 to declare the name Hoover Dam failed to pass...
...Tuesday Evening, May 28 Entrance of the Boyards Halvorsen *Overture to "Oberon" Weber "The Fair Day," from "An Irish Symphony" Harty *Two Hungarian Dances Brahms No. 5 in G minor No. 6 in D major *"On the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss "On the Trail," from the suite, "Grand Canyon" Grofe *Overture to "Tannhauser" Wagner *"Pictures at an exhibition" Moussorgsky-Ravel (Hans Wiener Dancers, with Orch.) Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard...
...Trail" from the "Grand Canyon Suite" Grofe...
...Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, California and elsewhere, sportsmen who hunt with bow & arrow have long had their own game preserves, where no guns are allowed. Last week the Oregon State legislature set aside the biggest bow & arrow sanctuary in the U.S.-the Canyon Creek Preserve, 200 sq. mi. near the centre of the State, where cougar, grizzlies, deer and small game abound...