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...from Washington to get away from blueprints and reports, soon shoved printed matter aside, set off at the head of a 40-car motor caravan to see things for himself. Rolling through stubbly, barren fields, over roads which blanketed the party in dust, the President inspected a sample WPA dam, turned into the farm of big, blue-eyed, young J. J. Boehm. While Mrs. Boehm and six small Boehms stared, the President asked: "How many acres have you?" "President," replied Farmer Boehm in a thick German accent, "I got 480 and I am having a hard time making...
...which manages the family fortune, but also the family's large Stoddard Lumber Co., First Security Corp. which owns 26 banks in Utah and Idaho, one in Wyoming, Sego Milk Products (now a subsidiary of Pet), Utah Construction Co. (one of Six Companies, Inc. which helped build Boulder Dam) and several lesser concerns...
Last winter when thousands of men were working at Passamaquoddy Dam in Maine, the U. S. Government contracted with bakers for 500 pies and 800 loaves of bread a day. When Congress denied further funds for 'Quoddy. thousands of men were laid off until only a corporal's guard was left. Six pies and eight loaves were all this remnant could consume in a day. Since New Deal regulations failed to provide for distributing food to the poor, the balance of the daily order went to the garbage heap and "Farmer Ed Pottle of Perry, who keeps...
...revolution of 1934. Although some 50 characters are introduced, most of the violent action revolves around Mudarra, a tall, impetuous Anarchist, a skilled worker in the olive fields, who seduces his best friend's sweetheart, plays the guitar with native genius, tries to blow up a dam, plots against the village priest, endures torture and a year in prison, gets free in time to burn a great store of corn, become reconciled with the friend he had betrayed, and dies as one of the leaders in the Asturian revolt...
...morning President Roosevelt detrained at Waterbury, Vt., to be received by Vermont's Governor Charles M. Smith, Senators Varren R. Austin and Ernest W. Gibson, Republicans all. To such political foreigners the President did not find it necessary to show his diplomatic side. He drove to Little River Dam near Waterbury, to Wrightsville Dam on the Winooski near Montpelier, thence through one of last spring's Connecticut River flood regions to Hanover, N. H., where he was met by Republican Governor H. Styles Bridges. At Little River Dam, where 1,300 CCC boys were working, he said, "This...