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Herbert Hoover: “The difficulties over the respective water rights of the different States have served to prevent development in a large…”

On the recordJune 24, 1929
The difficulties over the respective water rights of the different States have served to prevent development in a large way for nearly a quarter of a century.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Statement on Signing a Proclamation on the Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon Project

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