Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Executive. The President requested Attorney General Sargent to go at once to New England and confer with Vice Chairman James L. Fieser of the Red Cross on the flood situation (see p. 9). He requested Secretary Hoover to follow Attorney General Sargent this week, when flood data will be more complete...
...rivers of New England spent last week recovering from their stroke of autumn apoplexy. As they shrank back to normal, the mills that they used to turn, the power plants they used to keep humming, emerged from the flood covered with muck. Winter began to shut down and the muck froze. Much New England industry was crippled for months to come...
...people of New England followed the receding margins of the flood and returned to their riverside towns. Dunes of silt and wreckage filled streets and houses. Food and fuel were scarce. Communication was restored with difficulty. Railroads were broken up for the winter...
...Hampshire was less badly off. Governor Huntley M. Spaulding made no call for help. Massachusetts, which had expected the worst as the flood crests approached last fortnight, escaped major damage. Connecticut, too, had time to prepare...
Julius Caesar and Boss Tweed ... Cleopatra and Coolidge ... Shelley and Trader Horn ... the flood of biographies comes pouring in out of the publishers' presses. Chaliapin and Bismarck ... Napoleon and His Women Friends ... Robespierre and Uncle Joe Cannon ... with every anecdote that ever murmured about them in five point type. All the state secrets the private correspondence, the family albums, the unkind word and the billet doux that was lost before it could be committed to the flames...