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...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...
...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...
...expected that the Berliner-Joyce Co. will be developed similarly to the compact, conservative, painstaking Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica. Calif., whose trademark on aircraft is coming to be regarded as the equivalent of "Sterling" on silver...
MEYER, Swiss master-writer of the late nineteenth century, combined delicacy of art with a decisive, compact handling of his historical subjects that is all too often lacking in German authors, especially when they find the whole vista of a past civilization spread before them. Meyer is rarely discursive; he possesses startling dramatic sense, a passionate feelings for the great individual; these a translation can reproduce, but the perfection of style that marks the original it was not in the power of Professor Hauch to give again in his translation. It is to his credit that he has captured...