Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue," cried California's white-crested Senator Hiram W. Johnson to some Los Angeles lunchers last week, "on which no man, I do not care a rap who he is, should be silent. It will be the issue in the next Senate, when the fight for Boulder Dam will be up again. No man on earth is so sacrosanct but that his position on the Power Trust and Boulder Dam should be made plain to the people of the United States...
...lunchers well knew, Senator Johnson had been fighting for years to have the Federal Government block up the Colorado River with the Boulder Dam (between Arizona and Nevada) and give Los Angeles a bigger & better water and power supply. They also knew that the Issue forecast by Senator Johnson is against what is commonly called the Power Trust, meaning the potent, propagandizing private interests who have sought to prevent the erection of a Federal project on the Colorado...
...campaign in which he was supposed to be fighting beside and with California's favorite son, Nominee Hoover. The only conclusion the lunchers could draw was that Nominee Hoover, in conference with Senator Johnson last fortnight, must have agreed to be on the Federal-operation side of the Boulder Dam question...
That Federal power developments and operation should be undertaken at Muscle Shoals and Boulder...
...This preacher prayed for Plymouth Rock. Lord, it's Boulder Darn we are after, now! There is no appropriation goes with Plymouth Rock...