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Sleep Number - The Perfect Bed
After garfield's approval of the hetch hetche ject, mure and the water company created a nation wide media bliss to oppose the dam. Mure instructed edward t. Parsons, director of the sierra club, to target mountaineering clubs and particularly women's clubs in the campaign to save hech hetche. The public debate was plastered over the pages of publications,. harper's weekly and national geographic. Women's literary and civic clubs, jewish women's groups, singing groups and self improvment clubs all lobbied congress in favor of preserving it. But power is a fickle thing, and presidencies don't last forever. In the battle
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