Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime John L. Lewis personally called off his 40,000 coal miners, Colonel Janeway disarmed Mayor Shields's vigilantes and Johnstown settled down to its first taste of martial law since the 1889 flood. C.I.O. picket lines, now unnecessary, were withdrawn. Despite Mayor Shields's cry of "usurpation," Colonel Janeway took over full police powers where they touched on the strike, sending the local police back to their beats or traffic posts. Otherwise the civil authority was not disturbed...
...that little town was in large part due to the forensic drubbing he received from the satanic tongue of Clarence Darrow. At one point the grim old lawyer said: "The Bible says every living thing that was not taken on the Ark with Noah was drowned in the flood. Do you believe that Mr. Bryan...
Biggest U. S. news story of 1937 is the resurgence of Labor. Far longer lived than the Great Flood story and even deeper in its social and political significance than President Roosevelt's battle with the Supreme Court, it is news breaking on a hundred fronts and its ultimate direction and meaning are as exciting as they are as yet unpredictable. The great process of U. S. daily journalism is fashioned along reportorial rather than interpretive lines. Therefore, the very nature of the newspaper business-as well as the diffuse and widespread nature of the phenomenon itself-has made...
...Press, it was poorly prepared. The number of Grade A Labor specialists among reporters could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Also the story was popping in too many places for any paper to cover it with one man. First move was to handle it like the flood, rush an ace reporter (but not necessarily a Labor specialist) to the scene of greatest violence, rely on the press associations for complete coverage, and tell Washington correspondents to get some quotes from John L. Lewis, William Green, and Government sources. Notable in the year's early reporting...
Bright and sunny days in June are the signal throughout the American educational world for white-flannels, caps and gowns, and a torrential flood of altruistic oratory poured out over the listening ears of eager youth. Unfortunately much of this baccalaureate wisdom has to do with the challenge of youth--how mankind can confidently expect that all the ills that flesh is heir to will melt away as soon as flaming youth has seized the helm--and is soon forgotten. But it is nonetheless true that the seven hundred odd Harvard men who take their bachelors degrees on Thursday have...