Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probably know of the Los Angeles Times's single-handed fight to persuade the world that the name is Hoover, not Boulder, Dam. On the surface this does not seem to be much of a cause but the Times has elevated it to a kind of daffy dignity. In fact, its bulldog tenacity and unconquerable championship of Hoover Dam has been so fierce that when an innocent cigaret company offered it a whole page advertisement tying up the great project with a happy mouth, but referring to it always as Boulder Dam, the Times accepted it like a shot...
...that President Roosevelt just dedicated the great Colorado River dam, let TIME relieve its perplexed California readers who are confused by the Los Angeles Times's continual harping on "Hoover Dam.'' Has the Times any justification for its stand...
...columns of type and pictures reporting President Roosevelt's dedication of the dam. the die-hard Los Angeles Times, whose publisher Harry Chandler is a staunch friend of Citizen Hoover, stubbornly called it Hoover Dam except when directly quoting the President and Secretary Ickes. The project has never been named by law. Construction was authorized by "The Boulder Canyon Project Act." but the actual site was changed from Boulder Canyon to Black Canyon 20 miles distant. Customary procedure is to name a project after the act authorizing it, unless Congress decrees otherwise. Two Congressional bills introduced...
Fortnight ago Coach Herbert Clark Hoover officially sent the Republican team out to win the national elections of 1936 (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week Republicans were snapping the ball around, barking signals, racing up & down the field in great style. The fact that their Democratic opponents were still loafing in the locker room in no way diminished the scope or ardor of the GOP's attack...
...date no serious inquiry into the past and future of Frank Knox has been published. For the facts herewith, TIME is indebted to FORTUNE, which has prepared a full account of Mr. Knox which will be published in its November issue. *Inference: Herbert Hoover now gets his suits for $38.89 *The measure of a man's character at this two-week party is his ability to take any amount of merciless ribbing, and the onetime Chief Executive was generally conceded to have stood up very well when a tipsy Reveler leaned across a table and asked him: "Has anybody...