Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leatherbee, "has led us to select a series of American dramas that should delight a number of the undergraduates. First on our list comes The Lynching of Jesse James by Myrtle Mull into which we are now planning to introduce our motorcycle Agnes Dinwitte's foaming drama The Johnstown Flood is next on the list it is especially suitable for the H. D. C. in as much as it is based on the old ballad Lips that Touch Liquor shall Never touch Mine...
...wind out of the next figure on the scene, who was none other than Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, self-anointed savior of the Mississippi Basin. He blustered into town calling the Coolidge compromise plan "absurd," saying he had come (as chairman of the Thompson-invented Flood Control Conference) to put over the Reid bill. President Coolidge invited him to luncheon. When he heard about the Madden appointment and President Coolidge's willingness to waive the question of State-shared costs, except in principle, for the present, so that work might get started on the rivers...
Candidate Hoover went before the Senate Commerce Committee and said that flood control, too, requires "a constructive solution." He sided with the Administration for the principle of the states sharing the cost. He neatly, almost scornfully, eluded further quizzing by saying that the facts of the Mississippi Basin's condition were not all known yet, and by declining to criticize "my colleagues in the Government." Senator Willis, who had blustered so about how he would drag out the Hoover opinions at this hearing, sat silent and brooding while Senator Hawes put most of the questions...
...Amended and passed the House Bill, authorizing $398,000,000 for the Army's military and non-military operations, which include flood damage inspection; sent it to conference...
Undismayed, Mayor Thompson left town, going to Washington to have a fat finger in the larger political business of Flood Control...