Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senatorial courtesy is the custom by which Presidential appointees "personally offensive or obnoxious" to Senators from their State are not confirmed by the Senate. Last week Virginia's tart old Carter Glass and his junior colleague, Harry Flood Byrd, found obnoxious the appointment of Judge Floyd Roberts of the Corporation Court of Bristol to a Federal District judgeship. Reason: he had "lent himself to a conspiracy," of which the other partners were Governor James H. Price and Franklin Roosevelt, to flout the Glass-Byrd patronage prerogative. The Judiciary Committee thumbs-downed Judge Roberts, 15-to-3. The Senate concurred...
...propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work, not interfering with normal employment, and confining itself to forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control and similar projects...
...Supreme Court gave TVA a big inch in 1936, when it upheld TVA's right to sell the power generated by its flood-control activities at Wilson Dam (Muscle Shoals). Last week the Court handed down a 5-to-2 decision* that gave TVA a mile. Fourteen private power companies had appealed from a Federal court decision, which affirmed the constitutionality of TVA's entire power program and held that any loss they suffered from TVA competition was damnum absque injuria (loss without a legal comeback). In moderate Justice Roberts' decision, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal...
...bombers were recently informed that there was neither time nor money to build deep, underground bomb shelters, that steel shanties to ward off splinters would have to suffice. Even the long trenches gouged in London parks and golf courses for air-raid "protection" have been allowed to crumble and flood...
...timed? No; the petition comes at a time when the President is undoubtedly considering very seriously the lifting of the embargo. Following so closely upon ex-Secretary Stimson's letter, the latest Gallup Poll, and the flood of telegrams which the fall of Barcelona evoked, this petition from his own University cannot fail to make an impression upon Mr. Roosevelt...