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...half those at the Fasig-Tipton yearling sales at Saratoga. On the other hand, until Sun Beau passed her record in 1931, the biggest money-winning horse in history was Goldsmith Maid, a trotter who, in 123 races from 1865 to 1877, won $364,200. Foaled by a dam who pulled a cart for a New Jersey hat peddler, a farm horse until she was 6, Goldsmith Maid had raced only once at 8, made her best time (2:14) at 19, was still a champion at 20, died of pneumonia...
Since that time much water has gone under the bridge and Mr. Edge has gone over the dam into history as Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to France. Last April he and his pretty young wife returned from a world cruise in time for the asparagus season. Last week, the season of his favorite vegetable having closed, he sailed to enjoy the grouse season in Scotland. Standing on the deck of the Normandie, he swelled his chest, flapped his elbows and spoke once more of the firing line: "I want a month's rest so that I can come...
Died. William Mulholland, 79, builder of the 250-mi. $25,000,000 Owens River-Los Angeles Aqueduct, chief engineer of the St. Francis Dam which collapsed in 1928, killed 400; following an apoplectic stroke; in Los Angeles. An Irish immigrant boy, Builder Mulholland went to Los Angeles in 1877, found it a city of 10,000 people, took a job as zanjero (ditch-tender), studied engineering, enabled the city to attain a million population as a result of his daring municipal water system. When the collapse of the St. Francis Dam caused $30,000,000 damage and the worst flood...
Meantime Messrs. Corcoran and Brewster were working hand in glove for Passamaquoddy. Two fears beset legal Agent Corcoran, he explained. One was that the Power interests, through their Republican allies, might bring nuisance suits to check construction after the dam was started. The other was that, once completed, the dam would become another Muscle Shoals which the Federal Government would lack power to operate. Therefore he felt obliged to postpone construction until Maine's Legislature should create a State Power Authority to build and operate the dam in the Federal Government's behalf. Only on Representative Brewster...
...Refusing TVA's request for legalized control over all dam building in the Tennessee basin, a power which under existing law it had exercised merely by the "land shark" practice of buying up little parcels of land where Aluminum Co. of America was trying to purchase reservoir sites...