Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maryland's debonair Democrat Tydings helped out Ohio's Taft by picturing the Gilbertsville dam as a flood-control project superimposed upon a power project, but Tennessee's McKellar, TVA's Nebraska father, Senator Norris, and Majority Leader Barkley were too much for them. By wide margins the Senate voted the money for Watts Bar and Gilbertsville...
Richard R. Flood...
...persecution of the Jews in several European countries, the need for a haven of refuge is no excuse for them to oust a Moslem population of twice their number. One cannot help but sympathize with these desert dwellers in their fight against inundation by a flood of alien settlers, who have a diametrically opposed philosophy of life. Even if no displacement of population is intended, a minority of less than one-third of the inhabitants should not expect to exercise governmental control...
Driving rain, and melting snow resulted in a record breaking temperature of 61 degrees yesterday caused a flood of serious proportions in the quadrangle between the Divinity School and the Biology Building...
...Lawrence. The painters are Knud Merrild and Kai Götzsche, two strapping Danish immigrants who met Lawrence in Taos, N. M. in 1922, lived that winter with him and his wife, Frieda, in a crude ranch shack which they rented to escape Mabel Dodge (Luhan). Among the flood of memoirs-mostly by women-which have appeared since Lawrence's death in 1930, this one comes nearest to giving an objective picture of Lawrence...