Word: dams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular in his votes as a Democrat can be. He voted for tax reduction and flood control in 1928, for the Jones law and the 15 cruiser bill in 1929. He voted in series for the three farm relief bills in recent sessions, for radio control, for the Boulder Dam, against reapportionment. He is now fighting the tariff bill...
...Mexico during Pershing's Punitive Expedition, in Washington as Chief of the War Plans Division of the General Staff during the greatest war of all. In peace, he served as instructor at West Point, as engineer of waterways at Louisville, Nashville, Chattanooga, as the builder of Wilson Dam in Alabama. Recently he has commanded Fort Davis in the Canal Zone...
Trunk lids slammed. Fishing and dam-building clothes were put away. The President led Mrs. Hoover and his retinue back to Washington announcing that regular weekends at his Virginia camp were at an end. Possibly he may take one or two hurried Sunday excursions to the camp in the next month or two, but it is his intention to join Congress in sitting on the Tariff. Last act of Mr. Hoover before leaving his camp was to invite Mr. Burraker to visit him. Last month freckled, tatter- demalion, 14-year-old Ray (William McKinley) Burraker tiptoed into the camp carrying...
...Heflin, with a birdseye view of the mistake of allowing the Vatican more territory and a motion to prevent Al Smith from building the highest building in New York. Then will be a two weeks' discussion on prohibition, followed by ten days of Arizona Senators denouncing the Boulder Dam. "And by Christmas you won't know whether the birds got any seed or not.'' The prophet, Mr. Will Rogers, was wrong. The tariff bill was presented in the Senate last week by Senator Smoot. Two resolutions were offered calling upon the Treasury Department to open income...
...Last week President Hoover was 55. He celebrated his birthday privately at his Shenandoah National Park camp. Prime guests: Charles Augustus Lindbergh et ux. The President was "surprised" by a cake, candles, inexpensive presents. Pastimes: pitching horseshoes, dam-building, reading Sunday newspapers carried by air from Washington. Prime horseshoer: Charles Augustus Lindbergh...