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Surprise. In Congress, where Senate Majority Leader Barkley and Speaker Bankhead had been working like beavers to dam up their colleagues' enthusiasm for investigating TVA, this announcement that they had been working independently of White House orders was regarded as news indeed. Even more surprising did it seem when Leader Barkley, setting to work just as efficiently in the opposite direction, promptly produced his own resolution for investigating TVA, rushed it through the Senate. To pacify the House, Leader Barkley compromised on a joint investigating committee of five Representatives and five Senators, to be provided with full authority...
Photographs ranging in subject from portraits to Boulder Dam are being exhibited in the Dunster House Common Room. Also on view are examples of microphotography of biological subjects. The exhibition ends on Tuesday...
...them could give him. He began with Chairman Morgan's most celebrated charge: that there had been collusion between Tennessee's Senator George Berry and the majority directors in agreeing to "conciliate" the Senator's subsequently disproved claims for marble properties flooded by Norris Dam. What, asked the President of Chairman Morgan, were the facts...
...could go to the West and acquire a home and a chance to earn a living for the mere asking. Today these opportunities are gone. We can no longer expand to the West. Hopes and aspirations of young America are piling up behind the dam of economic circumstances. No such economic barrier can long survive the pressure which increases with each rising hour. Let us open the floodgates to young America, by legislating this Homestead Act of 1938. The American Youth Act is the new frontier...
...mail service broke down almost completely. For one afternoon the city's means of communication with the outside world was by radio, which was swamped with more messages than it could handle. At Pasadena the Rose Bowl was threatened when a torrential overflow from Devil's Gate Dam was turned aside with sandbags. Sixty miles north of the city a sudden landslide crashed on and nearly buried a bus whose 26 passengers amazingly escaped injury. At Glendale, floodwaters and mud wrecked a $1,000,000 Government flood control project. Meanwhile, the Red Cross took charge of relief work...