Word: gila
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, a public character performing a public function. At the request of President Hoover, he broke his homeward journey across the 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...
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...
President Hoover himself was not so apprehensive. He sent his predecessor a telegram asking him to dedicate the $6,000,000 Coolidge Dam on the Gila River in Arizona. Mr. Coolidge did not. promptly accept. The Hoover message was the first personal communication between the two men, as far as is known, since Mr. Coolidge turned his office over to Mr. Hoover a year...