Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tribute to him but approval of his policies. . . . "Millions have hoped that a political change would better their economic condition. This vote has outnumbered the votes of those who did understand." Republican Trubee Davison, defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York: "Well, I guess that's over the dam." In Chicago, Socialist Norman Thomas with no electoral votes but a popular vote expected to total perhaps 2,000,000: "Governor Roosevelt may find the mass protest vote more of a boon in getting him elected than in helping to face the years that lie ahead...
...voted for: Tariff (1922, 1930). Restrictive Immigration (1924), 15-cruiser bill (1928), Equalization Fee (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), Jones (Five & Ten) Act (1929), Reapportionment (1929), London Naval Treaty (1930), Debt Moratorium (1931), R. F. C. (1932), Labor's Anti-injunction bill (1932), billion-dollar naval building bill (1932), Sales Tax (1932), Revenue...
engineer. Nearing completion, Dnieprostroy, the monster dam and hydroelectric power plant on which Russia has spent more than 200,000,000 rubles, was officially dedicated...
...voted for: Equalization Fee (1928), Boulder (Hoover) Dam (1928), Jones ("Five & Ten") Act (1929), Federal Farm Board (1929), London Naval Treaty (1930), 15-Cruiser Bill (1929), Muscle Shoals (1931), War Debt Moratorium (1931), Reconstruction Finance Corp. (1932), Democratic Tariff Bill (1932), Revenue Bill (1932), paycut for Federal employes...
...work at Hoover Dam the party had the cooperation of the Secretary of the Interior, Ray Lyman Wilbur, and of the Bureau of Reclamation, as well as of the company building the dam...