Word: jadwin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place of Lieut. General Edgar Jadwin, retired chief of Army Engineers, the President appointed Brig. Genera! Lytle Brown...
...routine appointment. It had been openly said in Washington that the President was looking for "another Goethals." General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of Engineers, retired on Aug. 7. On his successor devolves the duty of carrying out the Mississippi flood relief project which the President rates in importance if not in difficulty above the building of the Panama Canal. Flood Control is but one item on the inland waterways program...
...project (TIME, Sept. 23). The trouble brewing is the objections of landowners along the Boeuf and Atchafalaya Rivers. These are two subtributaries of the Mississippi which run practically parallel to the course of the great river in Louisiana and Arkansas. The flood relief plan devised under General Jadwin and adopted by Congress proposed that these valleys shall be used to draw off excess waters in times of great floods...
Still undiscouraged, however, he con tinued to plan, to calculate, and last week his project at least reached as far as the newspaper headlines, and his bridge ap peared in diagram if not in steel. For with Major General Edgar Jadwin, U. S. Army Chief of Engineers, was filed an application for permission to construct a suspension bridge from West 57th Street, Manhattan, to New Jersey. First announce ments of the application linked the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. with the North River Bridge Co., told how the B. & O. was determined to get into New York, discussed plans and specifications...
...increasing. desire to have Congress get a flood measure passed this session. He looked upon the measure drafted and reported by Chairman Jones of the Senate Commerce Committee and found some good in it, since it recognized the principle of local contribution and since it placed Chief of Engineers Jadwin, and a civilian engineer to be appointed by the President, on a board of three (with the president of the Mississippi River Commission) to oversee the work. However, the Jones bill called for $325,000,000, or some 31 millions more than the discarded Administration bill. It called...