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...voted for Reapportionment (1929), the Navy's is-cruiser Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), Tax Reduction (1922, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1930), Farm Relief...
...continent at Globe, Ariz. In state as they used to be, he and Mrs. Coolidge were escorted 30 miles out across the desert to a canyon in the Gila River. Across the canyon, backing the river up into a 25-mile-long lake, lay a $6,000,000 dam named for Citizen Coolidge. As President, he had inaugurated this great reclamation project. As a President's representative, he last week dedicated it to (among other things) Religion, Education, Progress, Better Homes, Larger Incomes...
Some 15,000 persons, white and red, were gathered about the canyon when Citizen Coolidge arrived from Globe with Arizona's Governor John C. Phillips. He climbed up the dam parapet to speak. The beat of tom-toms died away. He had a sore throat; his voice was husky. A plane droned disturbingly in the desert stillness above. Citizen Coolidge began...
President Hoover himself was not so apprehensive. He sent his predecessor a telegram asking him to dedicate the $6,000,000 Coolidge Dam on the Gila River in Arizona. Mr. Coolidge did not. promptly accept. The Hoover message was the first personal communication between the two men, as far as is known, since Mr. Coolidge turned his office over to Mr. Hoover a year...
Meanwhile nothing has been done at Boulder Canyon. The dam's actual construction will probably be under the joint supervision of the army engineers and the Interior Department's reclamation service. Thirty miles of railroad must first be laid through a desolate rock-strewn wilderness and a town for 6,000 workmen built on the brink of the gorge. The prospect of Boulder Dam brought land booms at Las Vegas, Nev. and Kingman, Ariz. But so slow has the government been in getting started that these have mostly collapsed. Last week a gold strike outside Kingman made speculators...