Paying tribute to the man whose special talents he has used on several occasions, President Truman last week signed the joint congressional resolution restoring the name of Hoover to Boulder Dam. He used four pens, asked that they all be sent to the nation's only living ex-President.
Republicans were pleased. The name of Boulder Dam had rankled in their breasts for 14 years.* G.O.P. loyalists like the Los Angeles Times, which had never referred to it as Boulder, crowed in triumph.
But Boulder City, nine miles west of the dam, was glum. Merchants, contemplating a quarter of a million dollars' worth...
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