Word: mckay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...socialism. Yet the lavish public-power projects of the New and Fair Deals brought regional benefits which kept many a Congressman in office for years. TVA started the South's industrial boom; the Columbia River dams rejuvenated the economy of the Northwest. Last week, when Interior Secretary Douglas McKay issued his long-awaited statement on the power policy of the Eisenhower Administration, politicians from Nashville to Seattle listened intently...
...years) Reclamation Bureau engineer. Dexheimer was an associate engineer on the Hoover Dam project, built airstrips in China during World War II as General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's staff engineer, helped solve postwar dam problems in Australia, Formosa and Mexico. His name was submitted by Interior Secretary Douglas McKay after the White House turned down the nomination of Marvin Nichols, a hydraulics and sewage engineer, and a Texas Democrat. Although he supported Ike in 1952, Nichols also served Harry Truman as nickel adviser to General Services Administrator Jess Larson, was deeply involved in the sticky affairs...
...withdrew his name. Director John J. Forbes, a coal mine safety specialist who has worked in the bureau 38 years, will stay on until someone else is appointed. The main responsibility for proposing so vulnerable a nominee as Lyon rested on one man: Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay, who had insisted that Lyon...
...record crowd (750) at the Portland banquet waited expectantly, through 30 pages of a Morse speech, to hear the rumor confirmed. But the Senator confined himself to belaboring the Eisenhower Administration and raking the public-power policies of Oregon's No. 1 Republican, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay. The audience cheered most loudly when Morse pledged allegiance to his hosts. "Liberalism in the Republican Party," he declaimed, "is dead. In 1954, I will campaign for the Democrats...
INTERIOR Secretary McKay, worried over charges that he opposes the development of natural resources, will soon announce support for two gigantic power and irrigation projects for the West. One is the Frying Pan-Arkansas project to transport water eastward from Frying Pan Creek, a tributary of the Colorado, through a tunnel under the Continental Divide to the Arkansas River, south of Denver. The other is the Upper Colorado project, calling for the building of ten dams, which could rival lower Colorado's Hoover (Boulder) Dam project, distribute water and power to Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and New Mexico. McKay...