Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Formulate a tax reduction, and a flood relief, and a naval building program...
Said U. S. Congressman William E. Hull of Peoria, 111., who last week visited President Coolidge at the Black Hills White House: "The late flood devastated more than enough property to furnish the funds to control the Mississippi River twice over...
Governor Harry Flood Byrd, brother of Flyer Byrd, stood in the open air amphitheatre at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Va.). Behind him were distant backgrounds of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Before him were fellow Virginians and assembled dele gates to the newly established Institute of Public Affairs. Governor Byrd, following the purpose of the Institute to discuss U. S. political problems, spoke of re-organization of state and county governments, stressed the necessity for removal of legal deadwood. He suggested one session of every legislature in the country devoted solely to re pealing worn-out laws...
...Flood Novel...
...have done for morals, it has certainly burst the literary levees that used to confine the novel to its streambed. Conrad Aiken, long an escapist poet, is now able to over-flow the way Poet James Joyce did in Ulysses, with a whirling deluge of internal experience flooding in the general direction of a narrative. Less turbulent than Poet Joyce, Poet Aiken produces a flood less bewildering than Ulysses but quite as impressive. The narrative of Blue Voyage is simply that William Demarest, young U. S. writer and moral coward, sails second class for England to see Cynthia Battiloro, whom...