Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Water. Arizona, dissatisfied over water rights, has held out from the Boulder Dam compact. Last week at Reno, Nev., water commissioners from the six other interested states* met to evolve a compromise with Arizona, which has threatened otherwise to hamstring the whole development by prolonged litigation. At this Reno conference, California made new concessions to Arizona...
...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 forget Boulder...
...CORDIALS" and "BEVERAGES" read a pair of brilliant orange signs above the shrieking-green bay windows of a shop that opened last week at No. 201 East 44th Street, Manhattan. A small device on the door showed the American eagle rampant, announced that the shop was guarded by the Supreme Protective System Co., ip East 23rd Street. Twinkling in the display windows, dazzling passersby, were bottles, arrogantly full...
...Last week behind the Century Association's well-guarded doors there was more uncomfortable excitement, more nervous uneasiness, than any game of bridge ever produced. What disturbed the Association's calm was the fact that Iowa's Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart, social tattler, no Century member, had risen in the Senate to declare...
...Last week 226 Congressmen roused themselves to attention in the House when tall, thick-shouldered Representative Franklin William Fort of New Jersey strode out into the well and began to deliver an hour-long speech on Prohibition. On their little stools in the gallery, newsmen bent forward intently to follow his words. Well did they know that Mr. Fort is a close personal friend of President Hoover. Until last week he was secretary of the Republican National Committee (see p. 16). Perhaps he might throw new light on the President's Prohibition views...