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More policemen than citizens witnessed the Louisville parade. The hall where the President spoke was only half-filled with curious spectators who did not grasp the significance of his speech on inland waterway development...
Four thousand dead Moslems could cover a U. S. football field with corpses three deep. A field outside the walls of a city in China's most inland province was so covered one day last August. News, apparently authentic, came last week to modernized Hankow from missionaries...
...General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of Engineers, retired on Aug. 7. On his successor devolves the duty of carrying out the Mississippi flood relief project which the President rates in importance if not in difficulty above the building of the Panama Canal. Flood Control is but one item on the inland waterways program...
...justice to your article, otherwise quite correct, I should add that 75% of my orders are routed via steamer, even from points several hundred miles inland from Atlantic seaboard cities, for economical reasons...
...months' service, he wonders what these people meant. No small assignment was it for him to memorize just the list of things he is directly or jointly responsible for: the regular military establishment (124,000 officers and men at more than 100 posts); veterans, river & harbor improvements on inland navigation, the Panama Canal, the Philippines, Porto Rico, flood control, waterpower, forest reserves, oil conservation, the Smithsonian Institution, District of Columbia parks. In addition. President Hoover chose Mr. Good to be the administration's prime political adviser and agent. For twelve years (1909-21) an Iowa Congressman. Western Campaign Manager...