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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Navigation, however, is not the chief problem involved in the administration of the new dam, nor are the fish problems. Two salmon ladders were built-cascades with steps one foot high and 16 ft. wide. Six salmon "elevators" or fish locks were also provided. These are chambers 20 by 30 ft. into which the salmon may swim; then a gate is closed and a grating, similar to an elevator, rises until the fish can swim out into the reservoir above the dam. These devices have not yet been tested, for salmon are still able to swim between the piers...
...last week it appeared that from the beginning the Power tail is to wag the dam dog at Bonneville. Not to ship experts or fish experts but to power experts did Franklin Roosevelt go for advice on Bonneville's "incidental" problem. The President's Committee on National Power Policy (created six weeks ago) recommended in its first report that an administrator be appointed for Bonneville to conduct its operations along lines "not incompatible with any national power policy which may ultimately be established...
While such matters as these gripped the minds of the British Cabinet last week, a Coronation problem too tough for the Duke of Norfolk's Court of Claims to solve had to be referred for decision by King George. The problem: since the Joint Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, Lord Ancaster, has the undoubted right to receive "His Majesty's night robe" in which the King sleeps the night before the Coronation, what is to be done in view of the fact that King George VI sleeps in pajamas? This baffled the Court of Claims, should...
...socialite onetime Yale football captain, could well understand the Brady estate's problem, for he is counsel and manager of the great Edward Stephen Harkness estate. But village feeling triumphed and last week Mayor Aldrich began conferring with the village counsel as to possible legal means of keeping "Inisfada" out of the hands of the non-taxpaying Jesuifs...
Superintendents. Although exhibitors may help pay the bills, superintendents value their convention as one time in the year when they are free to speak up without cocking a cautious eye at their school boards. Atlanta's Superintendent Willis A. Sutton complained: "The problem of continuing a progressive program, and at the same time being able to continue in office, constitutes one of the gravest dangers to a Superintendent of Schools. The displacement of men in high positions at the strategic centres of our country has been the shame of education in the past decade." Superintendent Sutton had to mention...