Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cold, to go out of doors until three days later. There was a holiday trip to Alexandria, Va., to celebrate Washington's Birthday, and there was a new harbor, at Hollywood, Fla., to be blasted open by the touch of a button. Eclipsing all these there was Flood Control, around which the Coolidge week revolved...
...flood control bill reported to the House last fortnight called for estimated expenditures of $473,000,000 with no money levied from the States benefited. President Coolidge, whose recommendation had been for a $296,400,000 program with 20% borne by the States, began the week by calculating out loud that the Committee's bill, of which the provisions were so sweeping that they might apply to every stream between the Appalachians and the Rockies, would triple itself before the work was finished, costing the U. S. more than anything it ever undertook except the last War. After this...
...next figure on the scene, who was none other than Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, self-anointed savior of the Mississippi Basin. He blustered into town calling the Coolidge compromise plan "absurd," saying he had come (as chairman of the Thompson-invented Flood Control Conference) to put over the Reid bill. President Coolidge invited him to luncheon. When he heard about the Madden appointment and President Coolidge's willingness to waive the question of State-shared costs, except in principle, for the present, so that work might get started on the rivers below Illinois at once...
Candidate Hoover went before the Senate Commerce Committee and said that flood control, too, requires "a constructive solution." He sided with the Administration for the principle of the states sharing the cost. He neatly, almost scornfully, eluded further quizzing by saying that the facts of the Mississippi Basin's condition were not all known yet, and by declining to criticize "my colleagues in the Government." Senator Willis, who had blustered so about how he would drag out the Hoover opinions at this hearing, sat silent and brooding while Senator Hawes put most of the questions...
Professor George H. Nettleton, Chairman of the Board of Control of the Yale University Athletic Association issued the following statement last night. "The Board of Control of the Yale University Athletic Association announces the appointment of Marvin Allen Stevens of the Yale College Class of 1925, as head football coach for a term of three years. Since his graduation from Yale College, Mr. Stevens has been a student in the Yale Medical School where he is enrolled as a regular candidate for the M.D. Degree. He has been a member of the Yale football coaching staff for the past four...