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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Oratory | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Oratory | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...Prentis W. Abbott, Mrs. Robert E. Bacon, Mrs. James A. Bailey, Mrs. George P. Parker Jr., Mrs. Foy H. Booth, Mrs. Nicholas P. T. Burke, Mrs. Dwight W. Chapman, Mrs. Patrick F. Coady, Mrs. Louise H. Daley, Mrs. Philip S. Dalton, Mrs. Malcolm Donald, Mrs. Eben H. Ellison, Mrs. Edwin E. Farnham, Mrs. W. B. Osgood Field, Mrs. Frank J. Gamache, Mrs. Gordon Gordon, Mrs. Robert H. Gross, Mrs. Robert H. Hallowell, Mrs. Paul M. Hamlen, Mrs. Joseph D. Hitch, Mrs. Ralph Horween, Mrs. John P. Ilsley, Mrs. Bayard L. Kilgour, Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIST OF SENIOR SPREAD PATRONESSES IS NAMED | 6/10/1927 | See Source »

...James Lawrence, Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. Jacob W. Miller, Mrs. Torrance Parker, Mrs. Charles M. Proctor, Mrs. Rowland R. Robnson, Mrs. Dwight M. Sayles, Mrs. Hugh D. Scott, Mrs. Markham W. Stackpole, Mrs. George Stevens, Mrs. Edward A. Whitney, Mrs. Lothrop Withington, Mrs. Edmund Wood, Mrs. Russell Liudner Fry, Mrs. Celia Liudner, Mrs. Arthur Viewey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIST OF SENIOR SPREAD PATRONESSES IS NAMED | 6/10/1927 | See Source »

...University golfers will play against Yale Monday in the following order: E. S. Stimpson '27, Dwight Barnum '27, Joseph Morrill '28, J. A. Hutchinson '28, E. D. Cole '27, and either J. W. Hutchinson '28 or O. L. Winston '29. One of the last two will probably play in the singles matches and the other in the foursome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELI MATCHES TO CLOSE TENNIS SEASON TODAY | 5/28/1927 | See Source »

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