Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...haunting lines of Edgar Allan...
Major General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of the U. S. Army engineers, rose to his feet. General Jadwin reiterated the army-engineer insistence upon levees as the backbone of flood prevention. He said that though the flood has submerged 20,000 square miles, it would have submerged 30,000 had levees not restricted its spread. General Jadwin also attacked the popular theory that reforestation would prevent future floods; he pointed out that in 1844, when the valley was thickly forested, it experienced one of the greatest floods of its history...
President Coolidge and Mr. Lowden together polled about 85% of the entire Republican vote (some 200,000). Senator William Edgar Borah, pugnacious Idahoan, ran a poor third with 14,525 supporters, Vice President Charles G. Dawes received 9,938 and Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover...
...fishing, from spitting on angleworm segments to affixing trout cosmetics and bass liniments. It dwelt on piscatorial beatitudes in a manner that quickly revealed Mr. Hoover as twice the fisherman Calvin Coolidge is said to be, and in a style that revealed Mr. Hoover as a reader of Poet Edgar Guest and probably other standard authors...
...BRIEN-Edgar Lee Masters-Boni & Liveright ($2). Spoon River idyll...