Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boulder Dam. At Los Angeles, Nominee Hoover had to speak out on a subject of prime importance in the Southwest. Led by Senator Hiram Johnson, southern Californians, especially in booming Los Angeles, have long sought to multiply their resources of water and waterpower by urging the Government to build and operate a $200,000,000 dam on the Colorado River. Six other States are affected by the scheme. The proposed site is at Boulder Canyon, between Arizona and Nevada. Interstate disputes have raged, arising from cultural, economic and political differences, and differences in engineering opinion. Finally, the issue between Government...
Trains. At Los Angeles, the Hoover party changed private cars, to distribute equally between rival railroads (Southern Pacific, Santa Fe) the honor of transporting a Nominee...
...than the standardized A. P. and U. P. reports. Typical of this class are cadaverous Ray Tucker, who boils around after Hoover for the New York Telegram; James O'Donnell Bennett, a quick-eared conversationalist, who watches Nominee Smith for the Chicago Tribune; and Edwin S. Macintosh, a Southern gentleman, who, representing the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, lately got photographed sitting casually next to Nominee Hoover in a campfire circle...
...Snow Co. (N.Y.); Bedsole-Colvin Co. (Ala.); Churchill Co. (Ill., Iowa, Neb.); Eastern Co. (Mass.); Farrand, Williams & Clark Co. (Mich.); Faxon & Gallagher Co (Mo.); Fuller Morrison Co. (Ill.); Halvan Gorder Co. (O.); Kirk, Geary & Co. (Calif.); Langley Michaels Co. (Calif.); Minneapolis Co. (Minn.); Murray Co (S.C.); Roeber & Kuebler (N.J.); Southern Co. (Tex.); Western Wholesale Co. (Calif., Ariz...
What of the strange Antarctic weather? What causes the terrific hurricanes, sometimes reaching a velocity of 120 miles an hour? What influence have Polar blizzards and monsoons on the climate of the southern hemisphere, upon the waters of the Nile? U. S. Weatherman William C. Haines, expert aerologist, will seek to interpret these phenomena...