Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than two years ago a thin, fine rain of inflation sentiment began to fall on the Slough of Depression. Nine months ago men realized there was a rising flood. By October when the last of the old gold standard was submerged many a man saw in his mind's eye the members of Congress assembling in an inundated Capitol wading through the green waters of the flood, legislating in a sea of deep greenbackery. Last week the prophets of catastrophe saw that they were at least in part mistaken. The flood looked silvery, not green and the direction...
...Helpern pictured the addicts passing a filthy hypodermic syringe from one to another. Impatient to flood their veins with heroin, they did not bother to sterilize the needle which transferred germs from one man's blood to another...
...passing. In 320 pages Author Brunngraber, with painstaking Teutonic methodism, has compressed a significant world-history of the past 51 (1880-1931). An alleged novel, Karl and the 20th Century focuses from time to time on its little hero's helpless struggles to keep his head above the flood; but Author Brunngraber's dogged attempt toall the ground results in a kaleidoscope of fact which sometimes dizzies, sometimes dulls the reader's attention. With more statistics to the squarehead paragraph than are contained in a chapter of John Dos Passos' 42nd Paralled or 1919, Author Brunngraber...
...Grand Council of Italy has thrown another bomb at the decrepit League of Nations. The League is to be bullied into reform or else the delegation of Italy as well as that of Germany and Japan will be missing from Geneva. Coming as an anti-climax to the recent flood of nationalistic out-bursts, Italy's cry seems too obviously a bid to be heard, a youngish boast of a rising power henceforth to be reckoned with by the other big powers. But reform of the League of Nations' covenant is and has been an urgent necessity for a decade...
...high time that the honest, thrifty, debt-avoiding majority of the people of this country rise up in arms against the flood of inflationary, contract-breaking propaganda that is being stuffed down the throats of this nation...