Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database

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- Wants warship built in state
- 1937
- Wants warship built in state. - Senator Lewis Schwellenbach wants the newly authorized U. S. S. Washington to be 100 per cent Washington.
- State history. State officials. U. S. Senators. Schwellenbach, Lewis B. 1937-06-03
- C. I. O. requests U. S. shut down Coulee project
- 1937
- C. I. O. requests U. S. shut down Coulee project. - The C. I. O. has asked President Roosevelt and other government officials to close down the Grand Coulee dam project.
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-08-03
- Lumber cut region one's yearly will build 85,000 fine homes.
- 1938
- Lumber cut region one's yearly will build 85,000 fine homes. - In the northern Rocky Mountain region, since the first crude sawmill was established at Virginia City, Mont., the lumber business has been one of the leading industries and as such has...
- Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Lumber production. 1938-05-01
- Pullman solving peninsula problem
- 1936
- Pullman solving peninsula problem - At the Reno, Nev., station, the U. S. bureau of mines has developed an electrolytic process for the recovery of manganese metal from the ores, at the Reno station. The discovery is hailed as important. At...
- Northwest history. Mining. Experiments & research. 1936-12-13
- Fear of strike at dam fading
- 1937
- Fear of strike at dam fading. - C. I. O. to table issue--high U. S. officials order "hands off" policy. - Immediate danger of a C. I. O. strike at the gigantic federal Grand Coulee Dam project appeared ended today by a union vote to table the...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-08-11
- Army engineers investigate here.
- 1936
- Army engineers investigate here. - A group of seven engineers and geologists, attached to the U. S. army engineers department, as civil employees, have been making their headquarters at the Yale hotel here this week. According to T. P. Thayer,...
- Northwest history. Mining. Geology. 1936-10-22
- Indian land tax is held invalid
- 1936
- Indian land tax is held invalid. - U. S. court rules two Idaho counties must repay government. - After studying the Nez Perce Indians treaty of 1863, United States District Judge C. C. Cavanah ruled today that tribesmen could not be assessed...
- State history. Native Americans. Treaties. 1936-09-02
- Foreigners know more about basin
- 1928
- Foreigners know more about basin. - Have better idea of project than New Yorkers, B. L. Gordon points out. - Big men of the foreign nations know more about the Columbia basin project than the big business men in New York city, it was stated today...
- State history. Columbia Basin. General. 1928-03-22
- Dam workers satisfied.
- 1937
- Dam workers satisfied. - Major C. C. Berry of Mason City addressed the commercial club, telling of the labor situation at Grand Coulee dam. He said laborers there are satisfied with their wages and living conditions generally and wish to continue...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-07-29
- Coulee unions will fill jobs
- 1938
- Coulee unions will fill jobs. - "Absolutely no one should come to Grand Coulee seeking work on the project, and only such persons as are called through our employment office will be employed," Frank Johnson, in charge of the American Federation of...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1938-03-04
- Sunday tour over basin
- 1931
- Sunday tour over basin. - Ad club sponsors motor trip to show Columbia project. - The Forward Spokane committee of the Spokane Advertising club is completing arrangements for an automobile caravan sight-seeing trip over the Columbia basin project...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Clubs & associations. 1931-10-11
- Columbia basin storage solved
- 1928
- Columbia basin storage solved. - Discover fine dam sites on flathead river to care for Pend Oreille. - Announcement of the discovery of excellent dam sites in the South Fork canyon of the Flathead river below Hungry Horse creek, Flathead county,...
- State history. Columbia Basin. General. 1928-02-02
- Bid delay held dangerous act
- 1937
- Bid delay held dangerous act. - Coulee dam boosters rally to check demands for higher wage scale. - Aroused by the threat that construction at Grand Coulee dam might be stopped and the awarding of a new contract unnecessarily delayed by reason of...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-11-28
- Pullman wants new playfield
- 1927
- Pullman wants new playfield. - Chamber delegates to Columbia basin meet see completion of project. - That the Columbia basin project is a definite, well-organized plan, with as good leadership as could be found and with a backing which will likely...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1927-06-03
- Indian is painting huge mural for Indian hospital
- 1937
- Indian is painting huge mural for Indian hospital. - Julius Twohy, 34-year-old Ute Indian, discovered by Joseph A. Danysh, regional advisor for the federal art project, is painting a 72-foot mural in native form on the dining-room wall at Tacoma...
- State History. Native Americans. Art, artists & crafts. 1937-03-11
- Try keep liquor off reservation
- 1936
- Try keep liquor off reservation. - John Carver, U. S. district attorney for Idaho, conferred with officials of the Indian bureau today in an effort to obtain assignment of a special assistant to enforce the law prohibiting sale of liquor to Indians...
- State history. Native Americans. Crime. Liquor law violation. 1936-08-23
- Bureau seeks wage opinions
- 1937
- Bureau seeks wage opinions. - Public hearing Oct. 11--A. F. of L. asks more for workers than C.I.O. - The department of labor today set Monday, October 11, as the date for a public hearing on the wage schedule bidders on the contract for completing...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Investigations. 1937-10-08
- Special investigators look into coulee fuss
- 1937
- Special investigators look into coulee fuss. - Two special investigators from the division of investigation of the public works administration arrived here today to study the Grand Coulee dam labor controversy, which reached the point of an...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Investigations. 1937-08-12
- Agents seek facts on labor dispute
- 1937
- Agents seek facts on labor dispute. - Two special government agents are investigating the labor controversy at Grand Coulee dam.
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Investigations. 1937-08-11
- Will hold wage hearing
- 1937
- Will hold wage hearing. - A. F. of L. and C. I. O. representatives will be heard here Monday on the question of the Grand Coulee dam wage scale. The A. F. of L. scale is believed a few cents higher than that of the C. I. O.
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Investigations. 1937-10-07