Boulder Canyon Dam Planned as World's Largest Water Project
The Interior Department aims to push Boulder Dam after Congress acts, warning the Colorado River threat could flood 12 towns and 100000 homes. The 550 foot high dam near Grand Canyon would hold 26 million acre feet, create an 80 by 30 mile reservoir, and generate up to one million horsepower. Funding rests on private and public water and power contracts. The bill advances from the House Reclamation Committee and faces a House floor vote in late March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado River
Arizona
California
Department of the Interior
Boulder Canyon
Congress
Grand Canyon
Nevada
Department of the Interior Engineers
Boulder Dam
Hubert Work
Secretary of the Interior
Interior Department
House Committee On Reclamation
House
Corressman Allison TP. Smith
Party of Government
Insurance in Montana 1927 annual department report highlights
Advance information from the Montana Insurance Department for 1927 shows receipts of 326 606 26 with 9 152 agents licensed and 8 332 licenses issued to agents. Premiums paid total 16 200 060 80 with 45 percent returned to policyholders. Life in force stands at 317 644 394 22. The report notes fire losses and dividends and promises mailed copies to agents companies and libraries.
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Insurance Department
George P. Porter
Fire Department
Montana
The Cremona Violin Legacy Makers of Cremona
The three greatest Cremona violin makers were Nicholas Amati Joseph Guarner del Gesu and Antonius Stradivarius. They were simple hard working artisans who sold their works of genius for a few florins.
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Nicholas Amati
Joseph Guarner del Gesu
Antonius Stradivarius
Normal notes from forest week and campus updates
The assembly week features a National Forest week program with a proclamation read by Professor Jordan and forest pictures by Mr. Hoare. Next week Miss Sand's dramatics class will present two children's plays including The Dyspeptic Ogre and King George and His Grouch with named student cast. Commencement for the Normal college May 31 will have the largest graduating group yet and a speaker from Butte. Faculty activities include Dean conference in Missoula and Professor Lee R Light visiting multiple schools. Margaret Poindexter Tello has been promoted to assistant professor of music at Missouri. Floyd McDonald’s son underwent appendicitis surgery and progresses well.
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National Forest
Coolidge
Jordan
Hoare
Forest Service
Miss Sand
Ogre
Melbourne Jackson
Marguerite Collins
Jack Barrett
Frances
Helen Hoerning
James Kelly
King George and His Grouch
Normal College
T. J. Davis
Butte
Angeline Smith
S. E. Davis
Brannon
Missoula
Lee R. Light
Columbus
Reed Point
Big Timber
Livingston
Clyde Park
Wilsall
Missouri University
Margaret Poindexter Tello
University of Missouri
Flood Control Bill Sparks Coolidge Clash In Congress
President Coolidge denounces the flood control bill as the most extortionate in government history while Frear and other representatives push to require local contributions. The debate centers on funding, bonds, and the need for a unified levee system to protect citizens from floods.
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Senate
House
Coolidge
Washington
Representatives
Frear
Wisconsin
Congress
Reid
Illinois
Flood Control Committee
Ransdell
Sackett
Senate Committee
House Flood Control Committee
Marines Suffer 21 Dead 45 Wounded in Nicaragua
Secretary Wilbur tells Senate the marine expeditionary force in Nicaragua caused 21 marine deaths and 45 wounded, with extra costs of 1.53 million and total expeditionary costs at 5.536 million. He notes over 2 million would have been spent at home stations, and 202 Nicaraguans were killed in clashes.
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Senate
Blaine
Wisconsin
Wilbur
Nicaragua
Marine Expeditionary Force
Ile
Marine
Flyers Wander After Compass Failure In Snow Storm
German Irish transatlantic aviators planned welcomes in Washington New York and Chicago after escaping Greenly island near Belle Isle straits. Their flight story shows they lost course due to compass failure in darkness and a snow storm, wandering far off route. Relief arrived by plane and other aid.
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New York
James Fitzmaurice
Free State
Lake Ste. Agnes
Quebec
Duke Schiller
Greenly Island
Baron von, Huenefeld
Koehl
Fitzmaurice
Washington
Coolidge
Ashington
Chicago
Belle Isle Straits
Robison asserts navy policy shift aided Sinclair profits
Admiral J. K. Robison, former chief of the navy’s engineering bureau, testifies for the defense in the Teapot Dome case, claiming he steered policy to store fuel oil and open reserves, demanded max navy share, and enjoyed close ties with Sinclair including travel and dinners. He also admits friendship and poker with Sinclair as contracts were secured.
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Dmiral
J. K. Robison
Navy Engineering Bureau
Sinclair Teapot Dome
Navy
Seaboard
Sinclair
Robison
Lotus Club
New York
Defense
New York Democratic Committee Enters OV Smith for President
OV SMITH was formally entered as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President by the New York state Democratic committee at a meeting in the National Democratic club in New York City. Its name was presented by former party officials.
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George R. Lunn
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Senator Blease
South Carolina
Smith
Ilinois
Lowden
Houston
Colorado
Hoover
Delaware
Connecticut
Kansas City
Coolidge
Jess
Ohio
New York City
Norman M. Thomas
New York
James H. Maurer
Reading
Thomas
Maurer
Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor
OV AL Smith
New York State Democratic Committee
National Democratic Club
Government river harbor funds show big allotments in 1929
The 1929 federal river and harbor program reveals Eastern and Southern waterways plus the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers receiving the largest sums. Major allocations include the Mississippi between the Ohio and Minneapolis at 7.225 million, Ohio river 4.59 million, Missouri 3.63 million, Hudson 1.7 million, Delaware 2.15 million, and Sabine-Neches Texas 1.025 million, with other ports and waterways also funded.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Ohio
Missouri River
Minneapolis
Ohio River
Hudson River
East River
Delaware River
Chesapeake Bay
Savannah
Beaufort
Cape Fear River
N. C
Miami Harbor
Sabine-Neches
Texas
Illinois
Coolidge Opens DAR Convention With States Rights Plea
PD RESIDENT COOLIDGE told the opening session of the Daughters of the American Revolution convention in Washington that federal encroachment on states rights and government interference in business and private life must end. He praised the American theory of society as higher than communism and urged a return to Revolution era ideals.
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Coolidge
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Washington
Oscar Carmona inaugurated as Portugal president
Oscar Carmona, dictator of Portugal, inaugurated President after a March election with regular suffrage and no opposition. Violent earthquakes hit the Balkans, Peru, and Oaxaca causing many deaths and widespread destruction. Ellsworth Statler, 65, hotel magnate, dies of pneumonia at Hotel Pennsylvania New York. Forty killed in West Plains explosion wrecking a dance hall.
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Oscar Carmona
Portugal
Republic
Balkans
Bulgaria
Peru
Oaxaca State
Mexico
Ellsworth Milton Statler
Bellboy
Pennsylvania
New York
West Plains
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Cecil
New Era Society of
Pittsburgh
E. Phillips
Cremona
H. M. McDonald
Physical Plant Department
Floyd
the Tribune
Greenlysland
President Coolidge
Andrew Jackson
Capitol
Gov
al Smith
Asheville
Edward W. Pickard
Enumberto Nobile
Milan
Italy
Italia
North Pole
Germany
Seddin Airdrone
Stolp
Pomerania
King's Bay
Spitsbergen
Nobile
Amundsen
Pring
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Shantung Province
Shanghai
Marshal Chang
Tso-lin
Manchuria
Japan
Shantung
Tsingtao
Chang
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