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Next day, canceling plans to view the uncompleted 'Quoddy dams by sea from the Potomac, he took his mother in his car, ferried across to the mainland to visit Lubec, Eastport, and 'Quoddy Village, so that Maine men could not say, as they did three years ago, that he had failed to visit them when only a mile away. He saw the neat, clean, $1,500,000 'Quoddy Village erected for the dam builders, was engrossed by the bathtub model of the power project with its four-inch tides demonstrating how power will be made...
...around any subject, proved it when he was challenged to write one on a piece of string. Franklin Roosevelt could boast with equal assurance of his ability to turn any thing, event, theme or person to his own polemical uses, whether it be a national park, Thomas Jefferson, a dam, Andrew Jackson, the Louisiana Purchase or the taking of Fort Vincennes. Last week it was a bridge. Up to New York City went the President to help dedicate the $60,300,000 Triborough Bridge, biggest PWA project not only in his home state but in the whole East. Said...
There is no Hell in Michigan and officially there never was one.* In 1841 Storekeeper George Reeves and his brother-in-law, Timothy Allison, of Pinckney, Mich., bought a nearby section on a lake, set some 75 men to work building a dam, mill, distillery, house and store. Shortly after the distillery started, the Government ordered revenue stamps on whiskey. According to one legend, Squire Reeves snorted: "This is hell!" According to another, Squire Reeves, when asked to name his community, replied: "I don't care what you call it; call it Hell if you like." In any case...
President Roosevelt washed his hands of the Canal and its legislative mate, Maine's Passamaquoddy Dam. Last fortnight he reconsidered, had Majority Leader Joe Robinson attempt to hitch them to the First Deficiency (Relief) Bill. Tired, ailing Senator Fletcher made a long, earnest plea for the Canal, and his colleagues, largely out of affection for the man who was senior in service to all of them except Idaho's Borah and senior in age to all except Virginia's Glass, voted a conditional $10,000,000 for the Florida ditch, though rejecting the Maine dam...
First and most obvious candidate for the championship was Joseph E. Widener's Brevity, whose dam is Ormanda and whose sire is either Chance Shot or Sickle. As equivocal as his paternity, Brevity won the Florida Derby in record time, then, odds-on favorite, he ran second in the Kentucky Derby and the Withers. His admirers excused his failures to win by the fact that he was jostled at the start of both races. Winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness was Morton L. Schwartz's Bold Venture. Bold Venture last fortnight retired for the season with...