Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with only a few minor amendments to the measure passed by the House. One of them, as a safeguard against possible unconstitutionality of WPA, shifted control of the relief fund from WPAdministrator Hopkins to President Roosevelt. Another, aimed at preventing any more such huge false starts as 'Quoddy Dam and the Florida Canal, provided that no relief project could be begun unless sufficient funds to complete it were set aside from this year's appropriation. When this amendment was read in the Senate, the President's faithful Joe Robinson rose to offer an amendment...
...refused to appropriate money to continue them, President Roosevelt washed his hands of the two ventures. He had started them on relief money without consulting Congress, now declared it was up to Congress to finish them. But the President had already tossed $5,500,000 over the Maine dam, sunk $5,400,000 in the Florida ditch, and well he knew that Republican campaigners would not let U. S. voters forget his headlong largess...
...Pacific States were dull. Undistinguished were pictures of San Francisco Bay, cod fishermen, miners, deserts and the Rock Island Dam...
...high as to force China off the silver standard.* Another set of callers included Vice President Garner, Senator Fletcher of Florida and Senator Brown of New Hampshire, who sought the President's help in concocting a measure to revive the Florida Ship Canal and Maine's Passamaquoddy Dam...
During the course of construction on a giant dam, a negro laborer, through causes over which he had obviously little control, plunged from the scaffolding, and whirled to his death on the rocks about a hundred feet below. Our friend from Tech ran to report the accident to the foreman, a Dixitie of the old school, who appeared vaguely ruffled by the news. He turned to his assistant and drawlel wearily, "Dama it all, Oscar, go ahead and get us another...