Word: compact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand in the East, no man should feel more intimately connected herewith than Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan philanthropist. To help Harvard and his own Yale escape the contemporary trend towards standardized mass education, he has given them more than $20,000,000 to divide their undergraduate colleges into compact, wieldy "houses." Last week it was announced that the Harkness "house plan" would also be made available to one of the biggest U. S. preparatory schools. Mr. Harkness gave $7,000,000 to Phillips Exeter Academy...
...Supreme Court a final attack upon Boulder Dam* The court allowed the State, through K. Berry Peterson, its attorney general, to bring suit against California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur in an attempt to have the Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act declared unconstitutional...
...Colorado River Compact which apportions water among the seven States is "grossly inequitable, unjust and unfair" to Arizona which never ratified it. Its effect would be to leave 2,000,000 Arizona acres "forever unirrigated, uncultivated, uninhabited, unused...
...started and carried through the ten-year congressional fight which made possible Secretary Wilbur's Silver Spike ceremony. Your footnote saying Herbert Hoover got seven affected states "to sign a treaty agreeing to build the dam" is also incorrect. The treaty negotiated by Mr. Hoover, the Colorado River compact signed November, 1922, not 1921, contains no agreement whatever to build Boulder Dam or any other dam. It merely divides Colorado River water between the upper and lower basin states. Boulder Dam is an important happening for the Southwest. I know you are desirous of having facts correctly stated...
...cents the copy, $3.65 a hundred, or $29.15 a thousand, the London Times, most august of journals, offered U. S. citizens a small compact pamphlet last week entitled America and India, by a Dr. Edward John Thompson, to call ''attention to the widely circulated misrepre- sentations which are being offered to the American public as 'facts' about India by certain 'authorities...