Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In 1931, new disaster threatened when the main European economic structure collapsed, and the convalescing U.S. economy was severely set back. Though confronted then with a hostile Congress and 7,000,000 families without breadwinners, Hoover feels that he met the challenge head on. He won a year's...
¶ "We are not going to let our citizens, through no fault of their own, fall down into disaster they could not have foreseen and due to the exigencies of our particular form of economy, this modern economy where they have no power to keep themselves out of that."
The Department of Agriculture moved in smoothly and efficiently. On order of Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan, it designated as disaster areas parts of Missouri and Arkansas and the entire states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Maine and Massachusetts. (Maine's Republican commissioner of agriculture, Fred Nutter...
* Sparkman had already been nominated for a sixth term in the House when Bankhead died, could not have dropped out of the congressional race without allowing a Republican to win it by default. To avoid that disaster, he ran simultaneously for House and Senate and won both elections-the first...
Fifty-four anxious hours later, the rest of the party, toiling upward to what they feared would at best be rescue and at worst disaster, heard a voice, "pain-racked and almost sobbing," faintly calling "Help! Help! Help!"