Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British press, dashed by the President's expressed aversion to all wars, including their present one, told their readers not to be impatient. Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary Steve Early announced that overnight telegrams exceeded the response to any of the President's recent speeches. Implication: that the flood of anti-repeal letters and wires to Congress did not tell the whole story...
...Federal "hot oil" law restricting petroleum production. Alone of the Big Three, Bob Maestri is unindicted.*He still runs New Orleans and Louisiana (through Huey's little brother Earl, who became Governor when Dick Leche resigned). Accustomed to the rise-and the subsiding-of political scandal's flood, Louisianans concede Boss Maestri an excellent chance to get Earl Kemp Long re-elected next January, keep the shell-shocked but undestroyed Long machine intact...
Franklin Roosevelt had heard disturbing reports that Kennedy: 1) had 1940 ambitions, 2) had pleased British conservatives by telling them a "safe" man would be in the White House after 1940. Came the crisis, and Franklin Roosevelt decided not to change horses in midstream. Joe Kennedy had foretold the flood...
...autobiography culminating in the destruction by brimstone of the 20th Century-Fox studios. Life in the native Indian state of Ranchipur is going on placidly until the rains come. Then a San Francisco earthquake breaks the dam at the most inopportune moment, inundating Ranchipur in a flood more terrible, if less widespread, than that of The Green Pastures. A plague of Yellow Jack virulence breaks out, inducing the Ranchipur authorities to start a fire that burns as brightly as did the conflagration in In Old Chicago. Most cinemaddicts will wonder why, having carried this chain of horror so far, Producer...
...very few earnest people this cabala from the short-wave Voz de Guatemala meant: "War must be prevented. Do not let false reports inflame you. Relations can always be amicably settled. Unless a nation is really bloodthirsty, there is no reason for war. We must not let propaganda flood our brains and stop our reasoning. Stop and think! War is not necessary...