Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left with a cheery wave, "everything is going to be all right." Roosevelt rain began to fall as the President got back to his train to find 5,000 cheering Bismarckians awaiting him. "Back East," he told them, "there have been all kinds of reports that out in the drought area there was a despondency, a lack of hope for the future and a general atmosphere of gloom. But I had a hunch, and it was the right one, that when I got out here I would find that you people had your chins up. ... I get a picture which...
...Dern's death, Army guns from Portland to Pearl Harbor boomed the traditional salute at half-hour intervals, 19 blasts at retreat. A train was shrouded to take Secretary Dern's body back to Salt Lake City for burial. At Bismarck, N. Dak., President Roosevelt rearranged his Drought tour to attend the funeral, was obliged to postpone for two days his Des Moines meeting with Governor Landon...
Back in the Kansas capital, where he planned to stay until his drought conference with President Roosevelt this week, Alf Landon released a press statement: "I return to Topeka deeply gratified with my first trip of the 1936 campaign. . . . Everywhere, despite differences in geography, the people are undoubtedly interested in good government. . . . This is as it should be. It is the American...
...associations one evening last week concerning results of Mississippi's and South Carolina's Dem-ocratic primaries (tantamount to elections) came from the White House. The news the White House got was the best send-off President Roosevelt could have had as he started West on his drought-inspection trip that night. By thwacking majorities Mississippi and South Carolina had returned two of the President's most loyal and useful Senators, for each of whom his attachment to the President had been the prime campaign issue...
...long view of all this was last week presented by the Smithsonian Institution's Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot. Said he: "The North Central States can expect no appreciable letup in the Drought before 1938. A rain cycle is indicated by records of the water levels of the Great Lakes since 1837. . . . The cycle in the North Central farming and grazing zone has a 46-year swing, which is double the cycle for most areas on the globe. After this Drought there should not be another major dry period in the area until somewhere around...