Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cashiers began handling $5,000,000 a year. Nevadans regard him as one of the best friends their sagebrushy State has ever had, for he remained there after having grown rich on its resources. The Nevada-mined fortunes of John W. Mackay, James G. Fair. George Hearst, James C. Flood, William G. Sharon and William S. O'Brien were mostly spent and banked in other States...
During the morning and afternoon the control room for the announcements will be set up in the Coop Building, and six powerful projectors which will flood the Square with sound from 8.30 o'clock until long after midnight will be installed on the Coop balcony. A direct wire will be run to the CRIMSON News Room from The Coop headquarters where the results will be gathered from many radio stations throughout the country. In the first extra edition of the CRIMSON which will appear shortly after nine o'clock this evening, the early returns on the presidential elections will...
...floor of Manhattan's Empire State Building. They stepped out into the comfortable quarters of the Empire State Club, were bowed into a private dining room overlooking 34th Street. Ranged around the luncheon table were James Aloysius Farley, the bald, boyish chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Harry Flood Byrd, Virginia's energetic little aristocrat; Charles Michelson, the party's elderly, tousle-headed pressagent; Frank Walker, the committee's treasurer; Arthur O'Brien, headquarters worker-and John Jacob Raskob...
Somebody once said, "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken of the flood, leads on to fortune", and so one judges it is with the Lampoon. From the humorous material which the Lampoon, has been forced to run, such as the characteristic story of "Who was that lady?" the wisdom of the organization turned to the sale of Bologna sausage is self-evident. The announcement of the new venture itself gives the reasons for the new policy. Since the exhaustion of his cellar, Lampy's spirit has languished; now the basement is renovated...
...many others of this city are still thanking God for sending us the Army. We of Johnstown have now partly paid our debt to those who sent us help at a time when we needed it. that time was May 31, 1889 when we were visited with the flood that caused some 4,000 or more to be drowned. . . . Now Mr. Editor the sentence reads-'Eddie McCloskey the Mayor of Johnstown who offered B. E. F. mendicants a home and then had to run them out." Now I am going to ask you to please inform your readers which...