Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around any subject, proved it when he was challenged to write one on a piece of string. Franklin Roosevelt could boast with equal assurance of his ability to turn any thing, event, theme or person to his own polemical uses, whether it be a national park, Thomas Jefferson, a dam, Andrew Jackson, the Louisiana Purchase or the taking of Fort Vincennes. Last week it was a bridge. Up to New York City went the President to help dedicate the $60,300,000 Triborough Bridge, biggest PWA project not only in his home state but in the whole East. Said...
President Roosevelt washed his hands of the Canal and its legislative mate, Maine's Passamaquoddy Dam. Last fortnight he reconsidered, had Majority Leader Joe Robinson attempt to hitch them to the First Deficiency (Relief) Bill. Tired, ailing Senator Fletcher made a long, earnest plea for the Canal, and his colleagues, largely out of affection for the man who was senior in service to all of them except Idaho's Borah and senior in age to all except Virginia's Glass, voted a conditional $10,000,000 for the Florida ditch, though rejecting the Maine dam...
First and most obvious candidate for the championship was Joseph E. Widener's Brevity, whose dam is Ormanda and whose sire is either Chance Shot or Sickle. As equivocal as his paternity, Brevity won the Florida Derby in record time, then, odds-on favorite, he ran second in the Kentucky Derby and the Withers. His admirers excused his failures to win by the fact that he was jostled at the start of both races. Winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness was Morton L. Schwartz's Bold Venture. Bold Venture last fortnight retired for the season with...
...Republicans, Senators Hale and White were against the canal. But as men from Maine, they were for the dam. Hence Senator Hale forced a division of the Robinson amendment to provide separate votes on the two projects. Florida's canal came first. Senators Hale. White and 28 colleagues voted against it, but 35 Senators put it through...
Then came the dam. "Aye." voted Senators Hale, White and 26 colleagues. "Nay!" voted 39 angry Senators...