Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weekly White House conferences, submitted their usual sheaf of written questions, most of them devoted to the O'Shea statement. Going through the bundle of queries, the successor to the White House Spokesman* answered one concerning the appointment of certain judges, one concerning the progress of flood relief, one concerning a treaty with Panama which settled the matter of competition between Panama merchants and U. S. Government stores in the Canal strip. He then bade the correspondents farewell...
...lose one single man, woman or child," ordered onetime Governor (now Flood Relief Director of Louisiana) John Milliken Parker last week, as flood waters broke through into central and southern Louisiana. Even as he was speaking, from 500 to 700 men, women and children were marooned on a twelve-mile remnant of what had been a 50-mile levee along the Bayou de Glaize. Scores of rescue boats struggled toward them...
Meanwhile, smashing the Bayou de Glaize line of defense, flood waters swept through the sugar-belt district of Louisiana, threatened to add 125,000 new refugees to the total of flood fugitives. The Bayou de Glaize defenses ran, roughly speaking, east and west through Avoyelles Parish, about 90 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico. Having broken through this line on a front of some 25 miles (in a straight east-west line) the water was expected to continue almost unhindered to the Gulf. It should empty into the Bays of Vermilion and the Cote Blanche, some 100 miles west...
...Avoyelles flood came from the inland sea formed by last fortnight's levee-breaks in Northern Louisiana. Through this inland sea was moving the main flood crest of the Mississippi itself, headed southeast through the Old River to the main channel of the Mississippi itself. Thus the Avoyelles flood was a sort of gigantic overflow, distinct from the central stream that raced toward Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Sweeping last week through Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri...
Commented the Christian Century, sophisticated religious weekly, last week: "It is gratifying to be able to state that, so far as we have observed, there have been no efforts to interpret the devastating floods in the Mississippi valley as punishment inflicted by an outraged deity upon the sinful dwellers in the lowlands. If the calamity had been a tornado, a fire, an earthquake or a tidal wave, doubtless there would have been the usual outburst of piously blasphemous explanations that the divine patience was exhausted and that the sufferers were getting what was coming to them for their intolerable iniquities...