Word: swing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Argument in the Southwest has arisen bitterly and often over the subject Governor Hunt and Mr. Colter had been discussing-the Swing-Johnson bill, pending these several years in Congress, for the construction by the U. S. of a 550-ft., $125,000,000 power and irrigation dam (world's highest) in Black Canyon on the Colorado River. Mostly, the arguments have seen Arizonans pitted against sons of the six other States drained by the Colorado-Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, California. These have united behind California's Representative Philip David Swing and Senator Hiram Johnson...
...Swing-Johnson bill has passed the House. Arizona's two Senators, Ashurst and Hayden, prevented its passing the Senate only by a most heroic filibuster in the closing hours of last session. This session the bill has prime place on the Senate's calendar and Arizonans do not see how they are going to stop it again. A special engineering commission asked for by Congress last spring to make a final survey, has reported that the Swing-Johnson plans are entirely feasible, though perhaps $40,000,000 more expensive than estimated...
...season nearly three hundred men have pulled an oar in some crew during the weeks just now coming to a close. The informality of the University squad and the flexible number of possible class crews present an easy opportunity for all who have felt the fascination of a slow swing or the rugged vigor of a powerful forty two find a position commensurate with his ability...
...votes in Missouri. The usual complexion of the State is: Republican in and about wet, German-populated St. Louis; Democratic in the dry, farming western reaches. This year, the wet German-Americans, led by oldtime-brewer August Adolph Busch, have inclined sharply to Smith. Farm unrest impeded a compensating swing to Hoover in the west. To St. Joseph, on the extreme western edge of Missouri, went Campaigner Hughes to praise the Hoover record, to admit that "the Republican Party was betrayed in its own house" (the Oil Scandals) but to protest that "there is no issue on honesty" between Hoover...
With six political clubs already in full swing within the College and with the election itself only two weeks and few days ahead, it is believed that the poll, planned to embrace the entire University more completely than at any time during the past, will coincide with the aroused undergraduate and graduate political spirit and prove to be the most successful in the history of college balloting...