Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile some 1,800 delegates to the Mississippi Flood Control Conference clapped hands, stamped feet, as the Mayor mounted a platform over which hung a gigantic banner inscribed with the words, "America First." From the Sherman lobby came, intermittently, strains of a fife & drum corps which, aided by placards, advertised the conference...
Thus opened the Flood Control Conference, called by Mayors Thompson of Chicago, O'Keefe of New Orleans and Miller of St. Louis, but with Mayor Thompson the dominant spirit. Seven U. S. Senators and two Cabinet members (Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of War and James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor) were present; so were Mayors from many a Mississippi Valley city; so was onetime U. S. Senator William Lorimer, once barred from the Senate after an investigation of his campaign expenditures; so was many another notable...
...Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi pointed to the "surplus of $600,000,000" in the U. S. Treasury, said the country was rich enough to control floods...
Then spoke Secretary Dwight F. Davis, who said he came at the request of the President and to indicate the Administration's sympathy with flood sufferers. "The Mississippi can and must be controlled," said Secretary Davis. "The nation whose engineers built the Panama Canal despite seemingly insuperable obstacles can solve the . . . problem of flood control." He added that the solution was a matter for the next session of Congress to determine...
...TIME, May 2). Last week's announcement dwarfed it. With the Keith-Orpheum chain of 97 theatres will now be merged the B. S. Moss nationwide organization. To that combination will then be added the huge Stanley Co. Result: more than 600 cinema and vaudeville houses under unified control, a $250,000,000 entertainment trust supplying all its own celluloid features from the merged studios of First National, Pathe and Director DeMille, with the Producer's Distributing Corp. to determine when and where who shall laugh or weep at what. Scenting the arrival of mammoth theatres...