03/14/1929
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"So much of Executive Order of October 14, 1915, creating Power-Site Reserve No. 512, as modified by Order of Modification approved March 14, 1916, as affects the lands hereinafter described, is hereby..."
"I have received a multitude of telegrams from Governors and citizens in the Southern States urging approval of Senator Norris' Muscle Shoals project, and requesting that I express my views upon it."
"This happens to be an engineering project and so far as its business merits and demerits are concerned is subject to the cold examination of engineering facts."
"One side issue of this political phase is the use which has been made of Muscle Shoals to sidetrack effective action on the Federal regulation of interstate power in cooperating with the States."