Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greatest Catastrophe." Few U. S. citizens appeared to realize the extent of the flood disaster. During the last fortnight, indeed, the flood did not enjoy a "good press." The Snyder-Gray trial and the Lindbergh transatlantic flight elbowed it onto the inside pages of many a newspaper. Nevertheless, observers united in terming it the greatest of peacetime national catastrophes of all time...
Said Herbert C. Hoover authoritative, conservative, in charge of flood relief: "There was never in our history such a calamity as this flood, which before it ends will have, I fear, involved more than half a million of our people, creating a problem of relief and rehabilitation the magnitude of which it is scarcely possible to exaggerate. I sometimes wonder if the people of our country realize just what this calamity is. Do they know that before the flood recedes more than half a million Americans, men, women and children, will have seen their homes swallowed up in the deluge...
...Washington. Meanwhile President Coolidge steadfastly refused to call a special flood session of Congress. Hostile Administration critics maintained that...
...last session of Congress closed with a Republican filibuster which prevented the passage of the urgent deficiency bill, left the Government without sufficient funds for normal activities?let alone flood relief. Assuming that there are 500,000 refugees and that there is $10,000,000 (the Red Cross relief fund) to spend on them, money available for flood relief would be only $20 per victim. By calling a special session, the Government could get both the money for relief work and the authority to spend...
...President Coolidge has refused to make a personal visit to the flooded section. The flood has not caught the imagination of the country because it has not caught the imagination of the country's chief executive. Were Roosevelt President for instance, he doubtless would long since have been personally piling sandbags on threatened levees...