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...Storrow, who received the degree of LL.B. three years after this graduation and an honorary degree of LL.D. in 1925, was always interested in the improvement of the basin and was one of the backers of the construction of the dam at the mouth of the river. He was widely known for his philanthropic interest in the city of Boston...
...gunshot wound inflicted by one Tom Hollamon Sr., 67-year-old farmer, during a directors' meeting of Texas Hydro-Electric Co., of which Banker Peck was president; in Seguin, Tex. Witnesses said Hollamon appeared at the meeting to press an old claim for land flooded by a company dam, started to leave after a "friendly" conversation, wheeled, fired twice...
Robert Ridgeway past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers and member of the Colorado River Hearst, will give an illustrated lecture on "Boulder Dam" this evening at 7 o'clock in Pierre 110. All members of the University are welcome...
...Curtiss James drove the golden spike near Bieber, Calif, in a 200-mi. link between his Western Pacific in California and Great Northern in Oregon (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931). Only new mileage now projected is a 28-mi. Great Northern spur to the site of the proposed Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, a 14-mi. line planned by U. S. Army engineers between Wiota and the Fort Peck dam in Montana...
...than he could handle; like Mr. Krueger, he suffered from a continual embarras de richesses, and was, in boom times, hard put to it in his effort to use the money which flowed into his hands. To this difficulty Mr. Insull was, however, equal; there was the Colorado River Dam, and the pyrrhic battle with Cyrus Eaton: The difficulty to which he was unequal was that of liquidation. As an expert in money and banking, Mr. Insull knew that liquidation, on a large scale, is a witless feat which no one who lends money has a right to expect...