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...attention has been called to your issue of Oct. 27, p. 19, where, in a footnote, you state with reference to the dam to be built pursuant to the Boulder Canyon Project Act, at Black Canyon on the Colorado River, "its legal title remains fixed by the Boulder Canyon Project...
...Boulder Canyon Project Act is expressly stipulated to be a "supplement to the Reclamation Law." Under the Reclamation Law the Secretary, pursuant to his authority "to do any and all acts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act," has designated by his own order the name of the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona, the Elephant Butte Dam in New Mexico, and the Shoshone Dam in Wyoming...
...Pursuant to instructions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South's, general conference at Dallas last spring (TIME, May 26, et seq.), Bishop Edwin DuBose Mouzon of Charlotte, N. C. sailed into Rio de Janeiro's mountain-shadowed harbor last week. A motor procession carried him and his party to a conference with important Brazilian Methodists. They at once began to write a constitution for a Methodist Church of Brazil. Just arrived from Europe with his new wife and meeting them was Bishop James Cannon Jr., the Southern Methodists' missionary bishop of Brazil, as well as chairman...
...short, this picture published in TIME, April 28, was wrong, and I am sending this information pursuant to your telegram in order that you make due apology and correction on TIME'S letter page...
...dinner which the 99 attended in Moscow was tendered them by the Soviet Department for Western Trade. Pursuant to a Soviet request "to kindly leave behind furbelows, top hats, canes and other vanities that might strike a bourgeois note in the communist paradise," the 99 tourists attended in sack suits, travelling dresses. When the star-spangled strains had subsided, Comrade Poliayukov, president of the Russian-American Trading Corporation, rose beaming at the head of the speaker's table and boomed: "Welcome to Soviet Russia. While you are here you are invited to partake of as much vodka and caviar...