Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth of the matter is that, with next fall's election in the offing, a flood of investigations seems to be in prospect, but how much the Republican action can hold back the flood is dubious. Even if a committee reports adversely on a proposed investigation, the Senate is likely to order the investigation if it continues in its present temper...
...habit that he has, a talented habit uncommon among surgeons. Dr. Hybbinette has a rich tenor voice. He has won many a prize by exercising it competitively, and it is his habit to enter the wards with music in his throat Bending over to change a dressing he will flood his patient with, perhaps, the rhapsodic Prize Song from Die Meistersingers. Even whetting his scalpel, even plying it amid quivering tendons and tissue, he will chant a soft aria from The Barber of Seville. Aside from the pleasure it gives his effervescent nature, Dr. Hybbinette believes- and last week...
...Ward Flood Products. In Baltimore, at the command of U. S. Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, who termed his action the "first instance in which the Department of Justice has sought to administer prophylactic treatment under the anti-trust laws," the Department filed suit in the District Court against the new two-billion-dollar Ward Food Products Corp. (TIME, Feb. 8), charging that corporation with violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law and of the Clayton Act. Defendants named are: Ward Food Products Corp., Ward Baking Co., General Baking Corp., Continental Baking Corp., United Bakeries Corp., William B. Ward, Howard...
...attack on the floor of Congress a week ago. Today's editorial discussed the statement of Prosecuting Attorney Buckner that prohibition cannot be substantially enforced. It said that "where as Americans used to flock to Europe as a tribute to a civilization which we have not attained, we now flood the continent with a disgraceful, thirsty crew that makes the name of America ridiculous in European eyes." The editorial said: "The majority of Americans subscribe to what masquerades under the name of Christianity. Why not make it compulsory and thus insure the attitude and ideas of the whole country? There...
...Oklahoma and Texas. Another line extends southeasterly from Kansas City to Birmingham, Ala., where by arrangement with the Southern Railway it makes connection with the 147 miles of the Muscle Shoals, Birmingham & Pensacola, of which the Frisco recently got control. This branch gives it tappage to the present Florida flood of shipments. The main line of the Rock Island runs from Chicago to Denver and Colorado Springs, with another line going from Chicago to Santa Rosa, N. M., where it joins the El Paso & Southwestern (a branch of the Southern Pacific). Other lines stretch from St. Louis to Kansas City...