Word: basins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today and have been all week, at Mr. Dykstra's request that streets be clear for food and relief, and police be free to attend flooded areas. We are watching fire in our homes with care as has been requested because engines and pumpers are needed in the Basin where gas tanks have been undermined and gasoline released by the flood, also because the Water Works, built high above flood danger, are inundated today...
10th. Up betimes to stand long in the window before dressing myself. Down under me the Charles running along toward the Basin with as little concern as if it never heard of February. Lord, how forlorn the little islands of ice do look! It seems as if they wait hopefully for some sudden chill to freeze them into their accustomed mass. The sky is bright and blue. Methinks much too much for a winter's morning. In my ears hum those pretty lines of Mr. Wordsworth...
...Huntingdon. Clyde Davis, 35, fell out of an ambulance and drowned in the Obion River while taking his father to a hospital. Earl Kilgore. 35, was drowned when his car unset in a swollen creek. A drowned Negro was found in a Clarksville ditch. From Arkansas South-The Ohio basin's flood waters would not take full effect until this week...
...clock Josef Hano, Czechoslovakian Consul, New York, speaks on "The Struggle for Influence in the Danubian Basin: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Jugoslavia and Rumania." This will be followed at 3:30 by an address on the "Political and Economic Scene in France," by Professor Robert Valour of Lyons, France, now lecturing at Columbia University. Sir Arthur Willert, head of the publicity department of the British Foreign Office, 1920-1935, speaks Wednesday evening at 8:15 on "England and the European Crisis...
...White House. Probably some of the distinguished senators on Capitol Hill are also apprehensive of the President's latest scheme, and if they dare to speak at the facts behind the shrewd dialectics of the Brownlow Committee, they may find Mr. Roosevelt adding buckets of water to his basin of power. Soon the whole country must know whether the President has at last expressed his true intentions...