Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"At such a time as this a change in national policies involves not−as some may lightly think−only a choice between different roads by either of which we may go forward, but a question also as to whether we may not be taking the wrong road and...
Relief. The Red Cross concentrated its national organization. Henry M. Baker, National Director of Disaster Relief, hurried to Porto Rico on a destroyer. Public subscriptions were begged from the nation by radio, press and pulpit. Preparations were made to purchase tons of supplies for shipment to the Caribbean. In Florida...
Died. Patrick J. ("Paddy") Lynch, 75, famed fireman, hero of the General Slocum disaster; after several years' illness; in Manhattan. In 1904 the General Slocum, filled with Sunday School picnickers, caught fire in Manhattan's East River. The lives of 1,031 were lost. Fireman Lynch rowed zealously...
Salvage Director arrives within 95 minutes after the disaster, by airplane, from Rome. Name: General Naval Engineer Bernardis, subordinate to Admiral Foschini.
with dragnet apparatus. Salvage Director arrives within 24 hours after the disaster by train and airplane from Norfolk, Va. Name: Captain Ernest J. Kind, commanding officer of the U. S. S. Wright, subordinate to Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby.