When Ickes spoke at the dedication ceremony on September 30, 1935, he was determined, as he recorded in his diary, " to try to nail down for good and all the name Boulder Dam . " At one point in the speech, he spoke the words " Boulder Dam " five times within thirty seconds.
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"A good aggressive bunch of American agronomists and plant breeders could ruin the native resources for good and all by pushing their American commercial stocks & And Mexican agriculture cannot be pointed toward standardization on a few commercial types without upsetting native economy and culture hopelessly . . . Unless the Americans understand that, they'd better keep out of this country entirely.
