¶The state governors seldom find time to visit at the White House, but one of them was among the first Coolidge callers last week Governor John T. Martineau of Arkansas. He came as a chair-man with his six Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi colleagues on the tri-state executive board of flood control. After the call, Governor Martineau said: "We found President Coolidge sympathetic. . . ." He estimated that the permanent anti-flood program would cost close to a half billion.* The governor and colleagues later conferred with Secretary of War Davis and chief...
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