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...began construction (by Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.) of a Union Pacific spur railroad which is to link Las Vegas, Nev. and the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River, first step in building the $165,000,000 Boulder Canyon dam. Three thousand Southwest officials and others heard the Secretary exclaim: "I have the honor to name this dam after a great engineer, who really started this greatest project of all time-the Hoover Dam!"- Then all trooped back to Las Vegas. There they saw scenes reminiscent of the frontier days when the first railroads were thrown across the western deserts...
...voting a large block of Union Pacific stock, solely because Harriman, then needing votes, might have bought for a stiff price the Union Pacific stock held by famed Speculator Keene, Lamar's friend. Later he charged Union Pacific with false book keeping, caused Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath to exclaim: "He is the most unconscionable of liars...
...wondering if Oxford and Cambridge had any college songs. Also there was a dearth of organized cheering. It seems that they have no organized cheers in the English universities. At one point near Bull's Head Tavern I did hear a gentleman wearing the Dark Blue colors exclaim in a well modulated shout. "Well rowed, Oxford!" but immediately afterward he seemed to feel that he had forgotten himself and lapsed into silence...
...Puleston deserves more than his meager fame as the expert who exposed Alfred Aloysius ("Trader") Horn. Indignation at the gross ignorance of Congo Africa which he detected in the "Horn-books" caused Dr. Puleston (a prosperous Miami, Florida physician of 20 years residence) to exclaim to friends, "I can't believe this man was ever in the Congo...
Next day when New York's Senator Royal S. Copeland spied the letter in the Record, he was indignant. He arose on the Senate floor to exclaim that what Senator Heflin had written was grossly offensive to the State of New York and its public officials and should, therefore, under the Senate rules, be expunged from the Record. Senator Heflin, his coat tails flapping, objected vigorously, demanded an investigation of the facts, and, furthermore, warned Senator Copeland that he might be lynched if he ever went South on a Presidential campaign. In his best mimic manner the Alabaman visualized...