Word: dam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...along, happy though hot, President 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...
People began to bet instead on Mr Jinks, a grey horse named by Ireland's President Cosgrave, with ancestry dating to 1774 and in whose long lineage there always has been a grey dam or a grey sire. On the morning of the Derby there were three favorites: Cragadour, Mr Jinks, and Lord Derby's Hunter's Moon. A few people bet on a horse called Walter Gay, receiving 100 to 8 odds. They were later proved wise because Walter Gay came in second. In Belfast, Ireland was circulated a message which nobody could trace to its source: "Trigo will...
Arthur P. Davis, Oakland, Calif., consulting engineer (he built famed Roosevelt Dam) for irrigation projects in Soviet Central Asia...
...jury found Merton Hankins not guilty of assault, evidently because his reputation as a larkster was well established. Two years ago, when the Flatbrook Valley Club refused to let him fish in its privately stocked trout pools, near Newton, N. J., Jokester Hankins opened the dam, let out the water, killed most of the fish. For that he was fined...