Enjoy a sweeping panoramic view of the Grand Canyon from the historic Desert View Watchtower. Architect Mary Colter created the tower, built in the early 1930s, as an homage to the watchtowers built by the Ancestral Puebloan people who once inhabited the Four Corners area. The murals inside ...
83 (1930); Kauper, Judicial Examination of the Accused — A Remedy for the Third Degree, 30 Mich. L. Rev. 1224 (1932). It is significant that instances of third-degree treatment of prisoners almost invariably took place during the period between arrest and preliminary examination. Wickersham...
John C. Phillips, a Republican lawyer, defeated George Hunt in the 1928 election. His accomplishments include the following: establishing the Bureau of Criminal Identification; establishing free county libraries; and creating the Colorado River Commission. Like most Republicans in 1930, during the Great...
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Yuma on Tuesday to mark the completion of the 200th mile of the border wall system between the U.S. and Mexico.
Roughly 4 in 10 named the future of democracy in America as the single most important factor in the election. Latino or Hispanic voters made up roughly 2 in 10 Arizona voters, according to the survey. They are more likely to favor Kelly over Masters. ...
” They were married in London last June, Arizona in a 1930s-style bias-cut slip by Alice Temperley, the simplest dress the designer has ever made. “She didn’t want any ornamentation,” Temperley says. “It was all about their day, and marrying Boniface; she wanted the dress to be ...
Tensions between the United States and Japan had increased significantly by the late 1930s. Anti-Asian immigration policy in the U.S. played a role, as did the U.S. presence in Hawaii, the Philippines, and other territories in the Pacific. As Japan sought to carve out an empire of its...
(80,940 hectares). With the opening of the Roosevelt Dam (1911), a federally financed project, massive irrigation projects transformed Arizona's valleys. Although Arizona's mines were not unionized until the mid-1930s, strikes occurred at the copper mines of Clifton and Morenci in 1915 and ...
Even by the 1930s, this was particularly among young people who, “born and educated in the United States, demanded to be included in the city’s future …” (Sanchez 226). At a crucial meeting of Mexican-Americans in 1927, facing an Anglo led municipal incorporation move that would have...
In addition to tours, exhibits, stargazing and a chance to peer through historic telescopes, the observatory that discovered Pluto in 1930 is opening the new Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center (ADC) this fall. One of the most advanced astronomy centers anywhere on the planet, the ADC ...