Word: flood-control
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Middle Rio Grande Flood-Control District...
...After a flood-control hearing, he said, he had been invited to luncheon in a private dining room of the Senate restaurant. Guest of honor was that famed flood-controller, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago. To the great astonishment and mortification of the Louisiana delegation, also present was Mayor Thompson's good black friend, white-wooled Congressman De Priest. The Louisianians decided to "sacrifice their personal feelings and remain-in the face of all [Mayor Thompson et al.] have done for New Orleans and Louisiana...
Mississippi flood-control...
Secretary Davis prepared to set off to inspect personally the progress of another thing in which his Department is concerned, Mississippi flood-control...
...great natural powers he was called to carry on from China to Australia immense constructive works at the head of armies of co-workers with whom he has never had a strike or a misunderstanding. ..." Mrs. Clendenin then mentioned Nominee Hoover's feeding of Belgians and Germans, his flood-control work, Europe's understanding of him, and closed: "For these and a hundred other reasons, dear sisters, give Herbert Hoover your vote...