Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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April 14-19-First National Flood Control & Navigation Congress & Exposition; at Mid-South Fair Grounds; Memphis. Tenn...
Died. Mrs. Jennie Merryweather Rivens Byrd, 91, relict of Col. William Byrd, grandmother of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and onetime Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia; at Baltimore...
...FLOOD - Robert Neumann - Covici, Friede...
...Senate adopted an amendment to the tariff bill, offered by New Mexico's Bronson Murray Cutting, to discard the present system whereunder Treasury agents on steamship docks seize and destroy imported books which they judge obscene or immoral (TIME. Oct. 21). Appalled at the prospect of a flood of dirty foreign literature washing up on clean U. S. shores, Senator Smoot made a collection of volumes recently seized by the Customs agents and during his Christmas holiday pored over improper paragraphs to amass arguments for the retention of censorship (TIME, Jan. 6). His threat to read aloud blush-provoking...
Members of this organization designate themselves as Bible Students. Their creed holds that Biblical prophecies govern all earthly events. By careful scrutiny of Holy Writ, the Bible Students have discerned that three periods of time, termed "cosmos," prevail in human affairs. Cosmos I began with Adam, ended with the Flood. Cosmos II began with the Flood, ended with the World War. Cosmos III, begun in 1914, will end in 2874, when "The Kingdom of God" will fill the whole world. An erroneous prophecy that the year 1928 would provide a cataclysm- ''Nations will battle; the dead will...