Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equally important when one considers that Ohio is not only one of the key states of the middle west, but that it is, as well, one of the leading factors in any national Republican movement. Its unanimous and determined stand against Mr. Hoover rather indicates that the dam is beginning to break in the inner circles of the G. O. P. Long before a candidate can be elected, the party which is supporting him must be purged of all divergent tendencies. This is precisely what is happening...
Reader Nunnally Johnson refers to the Los Angeles Times's "singlehanded fight to persuade the world that the name is Hoover, not Boulder, Dam" [TIME. Oct. 21]. The fight is not single-handed for the Chicago Daily News does the same thing. It may be a coincidence, but Frank Knox. the publisher, apparently has presidential aspirations and Mr. Hoover, according to TIME. is a mighty potent force in Republican ranks even today...
Married. Marie Mclntyre, 23, daughter of Marvin Mclntyre, No. 1 assistant secretary to President Roosevelt; and Frederick Hayes Warren II, 25. supervising architect on an RFC dam at Phoenix, Ariz.; in Washington...
...hard to grieve over the precarious state of the Passamaquoddy dam project; even its sponsors seem unnaturally nonchalant while their child is being strangled, Perhaps, in truth, since Quoddy has served its purpose, its death--if only it be a quiet one--would be welcomed by the embarrassed parents. One might even suspect - the analogy is tempting-that the murdering technicalities are merely hired thugs, who will discretely disappear after their work is done, Nevertheless, little Quoddy must depart unsung; its story is enlightening and should be preserved for a wondering posterity...
...last week, Franklin Roosevelt for the second time in his Administration set foot in the Panama Canal Zone. Refreshed by a fortnight at sea, the President proceeded to turn on his most charmful smile. Taken out twelve miles through the jungle to see the new $13,000,000 Madden Dam on the Chagres River, completed since Mr. Roosevelt's westward passage across the Isthmus last year and calculated to supplement the Canal's water supply by 22 billion cubic feet, he graciously remarked: "When you compare the two, you wouldn't believe that Boulder is so much...