Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...domestic legislator, his greatest single achievement was the Boulder Canyon Project Act which he turned into an onslaught upon the 'Tower Trust." [His satisfaction soured when the project's name was changed to Hoover Dam.] As a good Californian, he votes for top-notch duties to protect Californian products, seeks to exclude all Filipinos...
...arrival of H. R. 13,312 before the House was an awful moment for the U. S. Drys, Consolidated. To them it marked the end of an era during which their power over Congress and the country had been practically supreme. The great dam they had built against the "liquor traffic" had cracked, they were helpless to stem the ensuing flood. Their six-vote victory over Repeal in a nominally Dry House was a portent of defeat in the coming Wet one. The Wets, on top for the first time as a result of the election, did not exult...
...place of conception, demands only birth on U. S. soil* Well beyond it went the American Kennel Club, meeting last week in Manhattan, in revising qualifications for the ''American-bred" dogs. Under present regulations the pup has only to be born in the U. S. of a dam U. S.-owned at the time of her mating. Many a U. S. fancier buys a bitch in Europe, breeds her there, takes her home before her time (63 days). "After Feb. 7, ruled the Club, both mating and whelping must take place in the U. S. Hoped...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was Europe's obvious move, in view of the fact that U. S. citizens have now balloted and cannot ballot presidentially again until 1936. By that time, in the opinion of realists on both sides of the Atlantic. Reparations & War Debts will be over the dam...
...stood ready to pay $3,000,000 over its counter. When this halted an incipient run President Richard Kirman beamed at depositors and cried, "Come and get it tomorrow, there is plenty of it!" Also open were two banks in busy Las Vegas. nearest railroad town to the Hoover Dam operations...