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...yard) rail and its first tie. Thus he began construction (by Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.) of a Union Pacific spur railroad which is to link Las Vegas, Nev. and the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River, first step in building the $165,000,000 Boulder Canyon dam. Three thousand Southwest officials and others heard the Secretary exclaim: "I have the honor to name this dam after a great engineer, who really started this greatest project of all time-the Hoover Dam!"- Then all trooped back to Las Vegas. There they saw scenes reminiscent of the frontier days when the first...
...Briand. Like one of those teetering round-bottomed toys called a "Bob-up" (feminine "Susy Dam," neuter "Be-ba-bo"), French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand bobbed up next morning, professing to see no rebuke to France in "Uncle Arthur's" speech. Of course France favors Disarmament, he smoothly observed, pointed to a passage in his own speech preceding Mr. Henderson's. He had said that Security must precede Disarmament, added that France has "notably reduced" her armaments on the basis of the partial security, she has already achieved, concluded loudly...
...California, $5,593,226,600. Contribution to Cost of State Government. Northern California, 40%; Southern California 60%. High State and U. S. officeholders. Northern California, 130; Southern California, 57. Governor Young started the campaign with the support of Senator Hiram Johnson. He claimed credit (with the Senator) for Boulder Dam. Candidate Fitts taunted Governor Young with reminders of the anti-Hoover attitude of Senator Johnson, insisted that he (Fitts) was the only "100% Hoover man" in the race. This caused Governor Young to declare for President Hoover's renomination in 1932. Whereupon the Johnson forces promptly turned cold...
...full diplomatic staff, including Brig. General William Wright Harts and Charles Lee Cooke, the State Department's ceremonial officer. One reason why the U. S. should participate so elaborately in an Abyssinian ceremony: J. G. White Engineering Corp. of New York has a large contract with Ras Taffari to dam Lake Tsana, source of the Blue Nile, to build Abyssinian highways...
...this sum was $208,692,465.12 more than the 70th Congress had appropriated for the last fiscal year, but argued that the in- creases were all for worthy causes. Major increases over 1930: Farm relief, $101,900,000; rivers & harbors, $21,600,000; public buildings, $20,000,000; Boulder Dam, $10,660,000; public roads, $37,400,-ooo. Declared Congressman Wood: "The Republican Party [is] anxious and proud to place before the American people the constructive, honest and efficient fiscal record it has made. . . . This record and the traditional capacity of the Republican Party to provide efficient and sane management...