Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Insurance & Teletypes. To handle the flood tide of newsmen, half the space off the floor of Convention Hall has been set aside for press rooms. Flanking and in back of the speaker's platform, where the main press gallery is, 30 noiseless teletype machines will carry running stories as fast as they come from reporters' typewriters. Elsewhere in the hall are 45 other teletypes, a battery of wirephoto transmitters, and more than 2,000 telephone lines. At the Conrad Hilton Hotel, convention headquarters, is another big press room. This, plus the hall's equipment, will enable reporters...
...popular of their number to permanent class posts and Commencement honors. Winners of the December elections were: Leo Francis Daley, First Marshal; Clement D. Coady, Second Marshal; John Burke, secretary; Frederick Vanderbilt Field, treasurer; Dwight Chapman Jr., Orator; Geoffrey Gates, Ivy Orator; Pierpcnt Stackpole, Poet; Ambrose Keeley, Odist; Richard Flood, Chorister...
Warning of Disaster. Windy old Pat McCarran took the floor for what was practically a singlehanded oratorical fight against the critics. Their proposals, he thundered, would be "disastrous" to the U.S.: ". . . opening of the gates to a flood of Asiatics . . . destruction of the national-origins quota system . . . would, in the course of a generation or so, change the ethnic and cultural composition of this nation...
...attentive South Dakotans; almost every hall he entered was jam-full. In a flat Ohio voice he said the kind of things most Midwestern Republicans hoped to hear. He said he was against universal military training, high taxes and expensive foreign aid; he was for farm-price supports, flood control and Douglas MacArthur. He made a big vow: "I promise you that if I am nominated and elected . . . I will reduce taxes by at least 15% within one year of the time I have been in office...
...nearly spoilt ta flood...