Word: dams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international military jumping events always get top billing. But the jumper who has brought down the house night after night, year after year, is Little Squire, a white gelding only 13.2 hands high (4 ft. 5 in.). Little Squire was born in County Limerick 15 years ago. His dam was a Welsh pony, his sire an unknown thoroughbred. When he was six (and known as First Attempt), he humbled Ireland's best "leppers," jumping 6 ft. 6 in. in the stonewall class at Dublin's famed Horse Show...
...working of natural economic laws in a system of free enterprise." That philosophy of "inaction and irresponsibility and indifference" he condemned, pointed to the new useful structures-"not just a school, perhaps a hospital, or a bridge, or a town hall, or a highway, or an airport, or a dam or a new waterwork or sewage disposal system"-which increased public wealth. Also, said he: "Into every project went money for wages...
...story. The reporters worked their way out of the room, filed back to their own car. The train chugged through the West Virginia mountains. One stop was made to take on ice and water. A crowd began to cheer, waved placards which read: "We want a Blue Stone Dam." The drawn shade of a window shot up, revealing Franklin Roosevelt, massive-grey-headed, smiling. The train moved...
...crowd that heard Vice-Presidential Candidate McNary disappointed Oregon Republicans, although it was the biggest for a political event in Oregon's history. (For Franklin Roosevelt at Portland in 1932, 8,000; for his dedication of Bonneville Dam in 1937, 6,000.) A small thing before the speech put the crowd in a frame of mind to respond to McNary's appeal to the pioneer spirit. Seven black-robed, black-veiled figures, like those who haunted the Senate during the conscription debate, tried to crash the bleachers, carrying anti-conscription signs. They were quickly ousted, their signs torn...
...effervescent New Dealers, who call him able, shrewd, liberal, weary, lazy, cynical. When he was given the Republican nomination for Vice President they predicted that he would show no enthusiasm in his campaign, if he campaigned at all. They said that since he had voted for TYA, Bonneville Dam, had steadily fought the Hull reciprocal trade agreements, he and Wendell Willkie were on opposite sides of the fence and could never get along...