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...Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was Europe's obvious move, in view of the fact that U. S. citizens have now balloted and cannot ballot presidentially again until 1936. By that time, in the opinion of realists on both sides of the Atlantic. Reparations & War Debts will be over the dam...
...tribute to him but approval of his policies. . . . "Millions have hoped that a political change would better their economic condition. This vote has outnumbered the votes of those who did understand." Republican Trubee Davison, defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York: "Well, I guess that's over the dam." In Chicago, Socialist Norman Thomas with no electoral votes but a popular vote expected to total perhaps 2,000,000: "Governor Roosevelt may find the mass protest vote more of a boon in getting him elected than in helping to face the years that lie ahead...
...stood ready to pay $3,000,000 over its counter. When this halted an incipient run President Richard Kirman beamed at depositors and cried, "Come and get it tomorrow, there is plenty of it!" Also open were two banks in busy Las Vegas. nearest railroad town to the Hoover Dam operations...
...voted for: Tariff (1922, 1930). Restrictive Immigration (1924), 15-cruiser bill (1928), Equalization Fee (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), Jones (Five & Ten) Act (1929), Reapportionment (1929), London Naval Treaty (1930), Debt Moratorium (1931), R. F. C. (1932), Labor's Anti-injunction bill (1932), billion-dollar naval building bill (1932), Sales Tax (1932), Revenue...
engineer. Nearing completion, Dnieprostroy, the monster dam and hydroelectric power plant on which Russia has spent more than 200,000,000 rubles, was officially dedicated...