Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...levees to their proper level, and the land for new levees. Congressmen from States watered by the Mississippi's tributaries, which the Jones bill did not benefit, were bridling and bickering. To spur their debates to a modest conclusion, President Coolidge hinted that he might have the War Department proceed at once with anti-flood construction, using the authority of the Rivers & Harbors Act and money from the current Army appropriations...
...Democratic campaign funds, the appointment was considered a complimentary one. But it soon became apparent that the Baruch genius could apply itself as well to public as to private affairs, and there was only applause when in 1918 President Wilson chose Mr. Baruch for chairman of the almost omnipotent War Industries Board, charged with controlling and purchasing all the raw materials and industrial fabrications the Allies required of the U.S. to prosecute the War. Upon accepting this post, Mr. Baruch sold out enormously valuable stock holdings lest they bias his judgment, and at Washington (as Writer Mark Sullivan said) went...
...Amended and passed the House Bill of Appropriations for the War Department, including 55 millions for surveys on rivers and harbors, passed the bill; sent it to conference...
Before the Civil War, says Ritchie, "the struggle of the States was for State supremacy over Federal power in the Federal domain. Now it is for State existence against Federal transgression in the State domain." There is no longer any danger of State supremacy, but there is a very real danger of State suffocation...
...Diplomacy of the Spanish-American War," Professor Baxter, Harvard...