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Herbert Hoover: “The effect of other suggestions is that the Government should purchase flowage rights over lands along stretches of the…”

On the recordMay 23, 1929
The effect of other suggestions is that the Government should purchase flowage rights over lands along stretches of the river where there is to be no additional waterflow out of the main channel.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Statement on Mississippi River Flood Control.

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