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...speech. "Men . . . you are now making history. . . . You are part of a great army, an army of peace and labor. You are going to be sent out into the woods and the rivers and the valleys. . . . You are going to plant trees and build fire lines and dam rivers. . . . You're going to work hard-all of you. If you still think you don't want to go through with it, you've still got time to go home. However, once you've taken this oath of enrollment, you are a member of this organization...
...Presidential party rolled into the yards at Boulder City, Nev. at cock crow. After breakfast all hands turned out for an inspection of huge Boulder Dam, which Herbert Hoover had started but which Franklin Roosevelt had helped along with a $38,000,000 PWA grant and was now about to dedicate...
...Address No. 2, the President was out to defend Federal spending for Public Works and the principle of Government-in-the-power-business, two more issues he has presented to his 1936 Republican opponents. After paying homage to the dam's 726-ft. height, its 115-mi. lake, its potential 1,835,000 h. p. of electrical energy, he declared...
...feature of his East-to-West journey was the 17th annual convention of the American Legion at St. Louis. At one time the President had tentatively agreed to address the Legionaries. He now had changed his mind. So he arranged his itinerary with formal speaking stops only at Boulder Dam and the San Diego Exposition, after which he planned to go home by way of the Panama Canal on a cruiser. To put the best face on this reversal, the President left Hyde Park last week after a 22-day sojourn, sped to Washington for a four-day session...
...plane thundered out of sight Addis Ababa buzzed with rumors that Fat Chaps had also obtained a $20,000,000 dam and pumping station concession at Lake Tana, the object being to increase the volume of water reaching the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...