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...always been the limiting factor to the desert's growth" . . . When federal western reclamation was authorized in 1902, some critics labeled it unnecessary, impractical and visionary ... I heard the same cries of "visionary" and "impractical" when I was on the . .. survey party which fixed the location of Hoover Dam in 1929. The growth and prosperity of the Imperial, Yuma and Coachella Valleys and metropolitan southern California would not have been possible without this dam . . . Now history is repeating itself...
...outstanding exception, Herbert Hoover, celebrates his 81st birthday this week.) Says Dublin: "There is no conclusive evidence that the increasing burden of office is taking a greater toll from our Chief Executives...
...Democratic tradition of a solid South runs deep in the heart of Texas. Only twice-in 1928 (Hoover) and 1952 (Eisenhower)-has the state gone Republican in a national election. But during the long Roosevelt reign, party rebels rose like bluebonnets in the spring. An anti-Administration faction formed as early as 1936, and in subsequent presidential years there were others: in 1940 those who opposed a third F.D.R. term, in 1944 the "Regulars," in 1948 the "Dixiecrats," and in 1952 the "Shivercrats." Of all these infidels, only the Shivercrats committed the cardinal party sin: they helped send a Republican...
Mormon Elder Benson prayed aloud for the health of the President and Secretary Dulles, and for the accomplishment of their mission. Then Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. briefed the Cabinet on developments at Geneva and passed around an "eyes only," top-secret dispatch from the President, outlining his mutual arms-inspection plan. Each member read the message silently, then passed...
...undergraduate himself, he managed to give Haverford some of the happiest years of its life. He raised faculty salaries quadrupled scholarships, more than doubled the endowment to $10 million. He served as vice chairman of the American Friends Service Committee, was adviser to such public groups as the Hoover Commission and UNESCO...