Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rebuked for its insistence on a large tax cut (TIME, Dec. 5), the Chamber announced- at least its national president, Banker Lewis Eugene Pierson of Manhattan, announced- that more than three-fourths of all U. S. Chamber men* believed the Federal Government should bear the entire cost of Mississippi flood control. In his message to Congress, President Coolidge had mentioned 80% of flood control costs as a more-than-generous portion for the Federal Government to bear...
...Flood Control. Simplicity wore a wry mask when the President wrote: "The Government is not an insurer of its citizens against the hazard of the elements. We shall always have flood and drought, heat and cold, earthquake and wind, lightning and tidal wave, which are all too constant in their afflictions. The Government does not undertake to reimburse its citizens for loss and damage incurred under such circumstances. It is chargeable, however, with the rebuilding of public works and the humanitarian duty of relieving its citizens in distress...
...President pointed out that the Mississippi's right-of-way through the flooded states was a liability as well as an asset. He recommended that the flooded states be required to pay for as large a portion of the flood control program as possible, in common justice and to ensure local interest in public expenditure...
...women, housewives, "home girls" and a few common everyday women?representatives, in short, of the 34 women's organizations for which the National Council of Women aims to be a guide and interpreter, met last week in Manhattan. President Valeria H. Parker, a doctor of medicine, sex-hygienist and flood relief worker, presided over them all and was reelected...
WASHINGTON SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF -Lucretia Perry Osborn-Scribner's ($3.50). Provoked by the flood of so-called biographies of General Washington, Mr. Osborn has joined together the writings of the man himself to the end that Washington may tell his own story. These writings, which include diaries, letters, addresses, state and war papers, have been arranged chronologically by Author Osborn, and connected by concise, impartial passages to facilitate transition from one document to the next. The whole effect is admirable, and the book has at least one advantage over an autobiography in that the element of self-interest...