Word: damming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boulder Dam. At Los Angeles, Nominee Hoover had to speak out on a subject of prime importance in the Southwest. Led by Senator Hiram Johnson, southern Californians, especially in booming Los Angeles, have long sought to multiply their resources of water and waterpower by urging the Government to build and operate a $200,000,000 dam on the Colorado River. Six other States are affected by the scheme. The proposed site is at Boulder Canyon, between Arizona and Nevada. Interstate disputes have raged, arising from cultural, economic and political differences, and differences in engineering opinion. Finally, the issue between Government...
...lunchers well knew, Senator Johnson had been fighting for years to have the Federal Government block up the Colorado River with the Boulder Dam (between Arizona and Nevada) and give Los Angeles a bigger & better water and power supply. They also knew that the Issue forecast by Senator Johnson is against what is commonly called the Power Trust, meaning the potent, propagandizing private interests who have sought to prevent the erection of a Federal project on the Colorado...
...which he was supposed to be fighting beside and with California's favorite son, Nominee Hoover. The only conclusion the lunchers could draw was that Nominee Hoover, in conference with Senator Johnson last fortnight, must have agreed to be on the Federal-operation side of the Boulder Dam question...
This conclusion, if correct, constituted one of the week's large pieces of news. Nominee Hoover is the heir of the Coolidge Administration. The Coolidge attitude on Boulder Dam has never been positively known. Toward the so-called Power Trust, President Coolidge has not, however, been cold. He pocket-vetoed a Muscle Shoals measure calling for Federal instead of private operation. He chose for Secretary of the Interior and ex-officio member of the Federal Power Commission, a man, Roy Owen West, who has long been the friend and frequently the employe of Samuel Insull of Chicago, the most...
Considered as an Issue, Boulder Dam is not an inter-party but an intraparty Issue, a cross issue. Loudly as California's Johnson may roar against the Power Trust, there are other Republicans, for example Utah's Smoot, equally effective in its defense. Among Democrats, the same split exists. Smith Democrats, if their chief continues consistent with his State record, will be found on the Federal-operation side, with the Johnsons and (unless signs have misled) the Hoovers. Opposed will be old-linesters, like Maryland's Bruce, who think that the Government should be kept from stepping...