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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liberal, especially when compared with his Farmer-Labor colleague, Senator Henrik Shipstead. He voted for Tax Reduction (1926, 1928, 1930), Reapportionment (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929), Flood Control (1928), the Jones (heavier Prohibition penalties) Law (1929), the Navy's 15-cruiser bill (1929), Radio Control (1928), Boulder Dam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 14, 1930 | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...Muscle Shoals Corp. of the U. S.," composed of three members appointed by the President to operate the plant, sell power to States and municipalities, experiment with fertilizer nitrates by using any private process filed with the U. S. Patent Office. A $32,000,000 dam was to be constructed above Muscle Shoals at Cove Creek to stabilize the Tennessee's flow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Kick in the Pants | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...President Hoover views the power generated at Boulder Dam as an "unavoidable byproduct" of flood relief, irrigation, reclamation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Kick in the Pants | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...enclose a picture of my young Setter "Princeton" pointing quail in the fall of 1929, No.. 150917 A F D S Book. Sire: Florendale Lou's Beau (93779). Dam: Paliacho's Shenandoah Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

Particularly well pleased with Coolidge Dam are the Pima Indians whose reservation lands will chiefly benefit from the impounded waters. Their time-old enemy, the Apaches, a more wandering, warlike tribe, had been moved off lands above the dam to make way for Coolidge Lake, had received $146,000 in U.S. compensation. At the dam dedication, however, the Apaches were in peaceful mood.† They made Citizen Coolidge "Chief White Father"; the Pimas bestowed upon him the title of "The Bringer of Waters."** Then the chiefs of both tribes and Chief White Father sat down on top of the dam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dam Dedicator | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

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