Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is trouble brewing over it. Recently the President offered to suspend judgment (and work) on part of the 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...
...Neither J. P. Morgan & Company, nor, so far as they know, any of the companies in which they have any interest, direct or indirect, have taken any position for or against public or private ownership of the St. Lawrence River water power or the matter of its development...
...where they will be addressed by the same speakers as at the University crew gathering. This sport is one of the most popular of fall activities necessary to fill the physical training requirements and it is hoped that as large a number of shells will be on the Charles River this year as in past seasons...
Director of Athletics W. J. Bingham '16, and Coaches E. J. Brown '96, H. H. Haines, and F. R. Sullivan '27 will also speak at both meetings. The shells will be on the river as soon as possible in order to get the benefits of the short five weeks rowing season before cold weather sets...
...most potent embodiment of U. S. capital, has entered largely into the light and power field. Excited, last week, were U. S. newspapers and U. S. senators when the Morgan utility interests acquired from the Mellon utility interests a group of light and power companies along the St. Lawrence River. Significant indeed was this transaction, but in a larger sense it was only a milestone along the Morgan utility road. When the economic textbooks of the future are written, the year 1929 may well be famed as the year in which the House of Morgan became also a Power House...