Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continent at Globe, Ariz. In state as they used to be, he and Mrs. Coolidge were escorted 30 miles out across the desert to a canyon in the Gila River. Across the canyon, backing the river up into a 25-mile-long lake, lay a $6,000,000 dam named for Citizen Coolidge. As President, he had inaugurated this great reclamation project. As a President's representative, he last week dedicated it to (among other things) Religion, Education, Progress, Better Homes, Larger Incomes...
Some 15,000 persons, white and red, were gathered about the canyon when Citizen Coolidge arrived from Globe with Arizona's Governor John C. Phillips. He climbed up the dam parapet to speak. The beat of tom-toms died away. He had a sore throat; his voice was husky. A plane droned disturbingly in the desert stillness above. Citizen Coolidge began...
...This dam and its waters do not need dedicating [cf. Lincoln's Gettysburg address: "We cannot dedicate this ground."] It is rather the people gathered here who need to be dedicated [of. Lincoln's Gettysburg address: "It is rather for us here to be dedicated."]* I do not suppose I am expected to speak to the dam and the water. Anything I might say to them would be of little effect. They will stand there unconscious in accordance with the laws of chemistry and physics and no utterance of mine will have any effect on them...
...northwestern corner of Arizona is another, greater dam project-Boulder Dam on the Colorado River-upon which work has not yet been begun owing to the discontent of Arizonans over the proposed distribution of water and power among Arizona and six of her neighbor States. Mr. Coolidge, having spent some time on the Boulder Dam plans, took occasion to admonish Arizonans as 'follows: "It might be helpful when you get home if you would take down your Bible and read that portion which says 'Agree with thine adversary quickly...
Then Citizen Coolidge broke a bottle of Gila River water over the top of Coolidge Dam. As it trickled down the escarpment, Indians whooped, cowboys yelled, politicians clapped their white hands...