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...voted for: Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922); Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930); Bonus (1924, 1932); Tax reduction (1924, 1929): Tax lipping (1932); Equalization Fee (1928); Federal Farm Board (1929); Boulder Dam (1928); 15-Cruiser Bill (1929): Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1931): War Debt Moratorium (1931), "Lame Duck" Constitutional Amendment (1932); Sales Tax (1932): Beer tax for relief (1932); Borah currency inflation plan...
...turbogenerators that will eventually produce 800,000 h.p. Water raised by the great concrete wall will make the Dnieper navigable up nearly all of its 1,400 miles. It will irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres. Workmen are hurrying to finish aluminum, steel and machine tool plants at the dam site. Soviet statisticians boast that it will serve a population...
...shared the orators' bouquets: tall, bearded Professor Alexander Winter, chief Soviet engineer, and Col. Hugh Lincoln Cooper of Manhattan who collaborated on the design and has worked on the dam almost since its inception. Under his orders all the turbines were installed, most of the concrete poured, and the job finished eight months ahead of the contracted time limit. To him went a special honor, the Order of the Red Star, highest Soviet decoration, never before bestowed on a foreigner. Said Col. Cooper...
...History. It is a light green jadeite axe-head, a foot long, with a snouted, bawling face on its side. Last week a fifth piece went on exhibition at the American Museum. Found 22 years ago by a U. S. engineer, now dead, during excavation work on a Mexican dam. it was bought and presented to the Museum by Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Similar in workmanship to the axehead, it is called a Tenth Century tiger, representing the god Tezcatlipoca of the little-known Olmec people who once lived in the states...
...Yapoos seriously expect we Yahoos to believe that cancellation favoring Europe at once and ipso facto means trade favoring America? It is an obvious non sequitur. Witness the attitude of our chiefest creditor. Right now at Ottawa she is busy as a beaver in a brook attempting to dam up a billion-dollar trade between dollar-tied neighbors, alienating from us Canadian plants and other acts which if a Yahoo like Andrew Jackson sat in Washington would mean war. Will cancellation revoke Ottawa decrees unfavorable to us? Will it put American wheat on a parity with Canadian in Liverpool...