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Colonel Edward Codrington Carrington, Maryland Republican, chairman of the Hudson River Navigating Corp. Reason: Waterway policy...
...this spring to extend a Government barge line on the upper reaches of the Mississippi. He then told them he favored private operation of that barge line, regarded Federal operation as an experiment. A delegation of railroad men, who wanted to express disapproval of the proposed Lakes-to-Sea waterway, arrived late by plane from the Twin Cities, missed their appointment. Before going back to Brule, President Coolidge inspected a 41-Ib. muskellunge which one W. R. Ross had caught at nearby Teal Lake, Wis. The President asked Fisherman Ross how he had caught it. Fisherman Ross gladly explained...
...Chief Engineer in the Porto Rican Army. After planning forts near Newport he joined the General Staff in Washington, where his abilities caught the tiny, twinkling eyes of William Howard Taft. Mr. Taft spoke of him to President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt ordered him to Panama to cut a waterway from the Atlantic to the Pacific...
...holds over Mr. Lowden is proportionate to the power of the Mississippi Flood over the farmlands of its basin, plus the power of many a steamboat. Mayor Thompson literally took the Mississippi Flood at its crest. He was cruising downstream with brass bands to popularize the Lakes-to-Gulf waterway when the rains descended. He changed his commercial cruise into an "errand of mercy," swung Chicago and himself into leadership of the flood-control movement, by no means neglecting to keep the Lakes-to-Gulf project stoked up and steaming along behind...
...that North Dakota farmers were intensely interested in the McNary-Haugen bill or a substitute measure of farm relief was dispelled by Judge R. G. McFarland, spokesman for a delegation of North Dakota farmers calling upon the President. It is the early completion of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway and the proposed diversion of Missouri River waters for the irrigation of central North Dakota that most concerns North Dakotans, according to Judge McFarland. Though North Dakota has Deen a Non-Partisan League stronghold, the delegation agreed that should the President wish a call from the people for another term...