Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge's request, the legislative engineers of the Flood Control bill called once more at the White House. The President took up a copy of their measure as last agreed upon by House and Senate, wrote three changes into it and walked away from his desk. The Congressmen found the changes acceptable and one of the knottiest knots of the session lay unraveled at last...
...chief effects of the final changes were two: 1) to limit the life of the new Flood Control Board, by referring to the Mississippi River Commission instead of to the Board the proposed survey of the river's tributaries, a task which will take many years; 2) to lessen the Government's liability for damages and expenses by specifying that damage claims are not retroactive and providing that the U. S. need not buy flowage rights over lands which the river now floods naturally. The face cost of the bill remained...
...irregularity in the ground, but in track the dopesters and the mathematician may stiff command attention. Track performances vary, but they usually vary within limits. And it is these limits that give purpose and excuse to the pre-meet mathematicians who about this time of year begin to flood the sporting pages with their carefully weighed prognostications...
Laila Hanoun, Hindu fakir, has just prophesied that New York will be inundated by a great flood twenty years from now, that the Romanoffs will be restored to the throne of Russia, and much more. It must be true, for the miracles have already begun to occur. The lowly Red Sox, nobody's toast, have left the cellar. Not only have they left the cellar but they are tied for fifth place with the Senators, and are what the sporting page chooses to call "perilously close to fourth place...
...Shenandoah Valley, where snow fell last fortnight, was bright last week with drifts of apple blossoms. Governor Harry Flood Byrd, himself a big cider, applesauce and vinegar producer, flew by blimp from Richmond to Winchester to crown the queen of the valley's blossom festival, Miss Mary Wise Boxley of Roanoke. It was a lyric occasion. Visitors waxed ecstatic over the scenery, the verdure, the marching schoolchildren. Newsgatherers tasted real Virginia applejack. None had a more gladsome time than his suave and swarthy excellency, Mahmoud Samy Pasha, Egyptian Minister to the U. S., who, with Mme. Samy, had been...