Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leader of the merrier element was James Leary Flood. In his blood was an instinct for the fleshpots; in his bank, money for it. His father was James Clair ("Bonanza King") Flood, onetime saloon keeper, later owner of the Comstock Lode with William S. O'Brien, James...
Fair and John W. Mackay, father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Hungerford Mackay. Said to be richest claim in the world, the Comstock yielded $340,000,000 pay dirt between 1864 and 1884, brought Fame & Fortune to the combination of Mackay, Flood, O'Brien & Fair...
...Flood inherited the bulk of his father's estate in 1889. All San Francisco knew of his high living, of the beauty of "Jim Flood's girl, Pete Fritz," a German girl who got her start in Shanghai. In the same year his father died San Francisco was scandalized to hear that Jim Flood's girl had left her widely known occupation, that he had married her. His friends avoided him for a while, but he and his Girl lived together happily, adopted a child called Constance May. When Rosina ("Pete") Fritz Flood died her husband promised...
Cause of last week's ado was Baby Constance May. now Mrs. John P. Gavin, 38, wife of a Los Angeles bank teller. Since 1925 Mrs. Gavin has claimed to be Jim Flood's illegitimate daughter, has sought a daughter's share (two-ninths) in his $18,000,000 estate. At first she named the first Mrs. Flood as her mother. Later she claimed as her maternal parent a Mrs. Eudora Forde Willette, onetime music hall girl...
...something real to smile about. Word had just reached him that he was for the first time a grandfather. But gloomy was Scot MacDonald who opened the conference that night. Said he: "If we cannot find a solution to the present crisis it will be difficult to stay the flood before it has overwhelmed the whole of Central Europe, with consequences-social, political and financial -which no one can estimate. . . . Time is against us. Every day adds to the risk of a collapse which will be outside human control...