INJUNCTION TO STALL BOULDER DAM IS SOUGHT
INJUNCTION TO STALL BOULDER DAM IS SOUGHT Arizona Candidate For Governor Carries Case To U. S. Dist. Court WASHINGTON—A suit to enjoin the. secretary of interior from proceeding with construction...
...Colter contend...
...The pending suit is not considered, by Sen...
...GLOOM AT THE WHITE HOUSE Day and night a dread specter haunts the White House, deepening the fears and forebodings which in recent months have transformed a naturally sunny and scientific nature into one pervaded by gloom and disillusionment...
...Among the latter the impression is spreading that the president is a poor judge of men, that he is unlearned in the elemental rules of the political game, and that, he has no talent for avoiding embarrassing situations and no skill in disentangling himself from them...
...If there was a rift in the clouds when the Sage of Northampton announced himself as being definitely out of the picture, it was but momentary, because the present disposition in presidential circles is to trust nobody, and especially to trust no professional politician—such as Calvin certainly will be until the inevitable day when God calls him home...
...secretary of interior from proceeding with construction of Boulder Dam is pending before the district supreme, court here...
...Hoover realizes definitely, and at last, that he is "in bad" with the country...
...He pointed out that the complainants occupy an unofficial status...
...The specter is the memory of what happened to the Taft administration...
...Among the former there is a growing suspicion that his reputation as an economist is largely founded on bluff and ballyhoo...
...I should not marvel if there were some truth in these conclusions, and I shall not be surprised if they come to be more widely held.—-Taul F. Anderson...
...Henry F. Ashurst, Ariz., one of I the principal opponents of the construc-j Hon of Boulder Dam, as an official | move on the part of his state to block j construction of the project...
...Washington Correspondent of The Nation...
...He has...
...that the sale of Colorado River water to Los Angeles and the metropolitan water district of Southern California, as contemplated by the government, would constitute confiscation of Arizona property...
...lost, to a very large extent, the confidence of the business community to which he always made a special appeal for support, and, what is more alarming, he has lost the confidence of local Republican leaders throughout the country...
...Petition for an injunction to restrain the government from construction of the dam was filed by Fred T. Colter, Phoenix, Ariz., a candidate for governor...
Vol. 1 • July 1930 • No. 32
