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...There is but one limitation [to the growth of Los Angeles] which looms, . . . and that is adequate water supply. That can and must be assured from the Colorado River. . . . We want the greatest reservoir and the highest dam at Boulder Canyon that the engineers will recommend and I am hopeful that the project will receive favorable action from the present Congress...
...second constitutional duty imposed upon the President is 'to recommend to the Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.' Opinion upon prohibition cuts squarely across the two great political parties. There are thousands of so-called 'wets and drys' in each. The platform of my party is silent upon any question of change in the law. I personally believe that there should be change and I shall advise the Congress in accordance with my constitutional duty of whatever changes I deem 'necessary or expedient.' It will then be for the people...
...found that low bid was 22% less than the present contract (with Middle West Supply Co., Dayton, Ohio), would add some $5,000,000 to the shearings and scrapings so insistently demanded by Budgeteer Herbert Mayhew Lord. Postmaster General New named a committee to study the bids, probably to recommend awarding the contract to the low International Envelope Corp., subsidiary of the (world's largest) International Paper...
...despite its Teutonic name, originated not in Germany but in Asia. Tartars ate it first, introduced it to the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe, who fed it to their German friends, who brought it to the U. S., where it was first made commercially in St. Louis. Some physicians recommend sauerkraut for constipation, intestinal putrefaction, because the lactic acid responsible for the sour taste keeps down the birthrate of putrefying bugs. * Furfural, a chemical compound made from corncobs or oat hulls, once a museum curiosity, is now used in the preparation of synthetic resin as bakelite; in the preservation...
...rabid dogs have been given the Pasteur treatment by the department of health. Never before has there been such a situation in Chicago or any other large American city. These facts, reported last fortnight, by Health Commissioner Dr. Arnold H. Kegel caused the Institute of Medicine of Chicago to recommend...