Word: massena
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press that the White Armies under Generalissimo Francisco Franco were now engaged in trying to take Madrid by exactly the same tactics over exactly the same roads and passes as served British General Sir Arthur Wellesley to take Madrid from the Emperor Napoleon's great Marshals Ney, Massena and Soult in the Peninsular War. After that campaign Sir Arthur became the Duke of Wellington...
Died, Allen B. Cook. 85, gentleman farmer; after long illness: in Massena, N. Y. Mr. Cook's daughter, Nancy, is a close friend of Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt and her associate in the Valkill Furniture Shop at Hyde Park, N. Y., the Todhunter School in Manhattan...
...Wired President Hoover for a personal conference on the St. Lawrence River development. The U. S. and Canada are negotiating a treaty on which depends New York's State-owned, State-operated power project at Massena Point. A hitch with the State Department has developed on the State's share of the cost. The Democratic nominee suggested a meeting with the Republican nominee to "hasten the initiation of this vast project which means cheap transportation . . . cheap electricity for homes, farms and industries . . . and employment for thousands of workers." Obvious was the New York Governor's intention...
...into the hydroelectric power business on a scale as large as the U. S. at Boulder Dam. The Legislature at Albany passed a bill creating a State Power Authority to conduct this ambitious utility enterprise. The Power Authority will construct a $171,547,000 dam and generating plant near Massena Point on the international rapids of the St. Lawrence River. It will market the energy? some 2,000,000 h. p.?there produced, through private distributing agencies already in the utility field...