Word: damming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Country won't be worth a dam...
...Country won't be worth a dam...
...always had a leaning toward Rational Progressive policies." He has never stood for public office before and "was a very much surprised man" when, in August, the Farmer-Laborites asked him to run. He accepted, promising Farm Relief, a Prohibition referendum, States' rights, the Smith program for Boulder Dam, the G. O. P. policy on immigration, "adequate" Federal flood control, a non-partisan Cabinet...
Arizona. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, famed Boulder Dam filibusterer, handily won his Democratic renomination. Democrat George Wylie Paul Hunt. Arizona's habitual (1911-19; 1923-28) Governor, was put up for an eighth term. If Arizona goes in November as in September, Senator Ashurst will be re-elected by three-to-one over Republican Nominee Ralph H. Cameron. Governor Hunt's opponent will be Judge John C. Phillips...
Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West called, to bring the President up to date on the Boulder Dam (Colorado River) project and also, presumably, on the Hoover campaign as seen from Washington...