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...voted against: Boulder Dam (1928), Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), Sales Tax (1932), Bonus...
...closing days of the 1928 first Congressional session he filibustered mightily against passage of the bill to construct Boulder Dam on the theory that populous California would not pay arid and thinly settled Arizona a fair share for water diverted from the Colorado River. He was bitterly disappointed when the bill passed at the next session. Like many another frontier politician, he dreams of U. S. territorial expansion: three years ago he lustily campaigned for U. S. acquisition of Lower California and a slice of Sonora to straighten out Arizona's southern boundary...
...afternoon. 200 miles from Asheville, the three ladies hung in a wooden cage 400 ft. in air looking down on the Clinch River. With them was Dr. Arthur Ernest Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, pointing out the foundations of the 253 ft.. $34,000,000 Norris dam. "It is most thrilling!' Mrs. Roosevelt exclaimed, "a great deal like riding in an airplane.'' After a two hour inspection of a dozen electric-gadgeted brick and frame houses in the new town of Norris, she went to one of the construction camps and made a speech: ''The Government...
...Barbara Stanwyck in Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, a sequel to I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang called I'm Back in the Chain Gang; Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, with Guy Kibbee; Anthony Adverse; Dolores Del Rio in Farewell to Shanghai; journalistic investigations of bicycle racing. Boulder Dam, roadhouses. traveling salesladies; five musical pictures...
...travelling companions an English communist and an American capitalist. The former was more and more disgusted with Russia because it turned out not to be bona fide communism; the later was more an more interested in Russia, a Russia which could build the Dneiper Dam. The author is always of two minds. He is sceptical as to the effects of propaganda throttling school books, cinemas, and the press. Children learn English to the tune, "Little American boy is hungry. . American boy wishes he could come to Russia, where he can got enough to cat." He doubts whether under such...