Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard Russell Flood...
Seventeen Sophmores will be up for election; 13 were originally nominated, one was dropped, and six were added by petition; Robert M. Bunker, Richard R. Flood, Francis A. Harding, Jr., Richard P. Hedblom, Ulysses J. Lupien, Jr., and Henry R. Russell...
...plan for a national Power policy, including soil conservation, flood control, navigation...
...print to the second annual National News-Photo Contest run by Editor & Publisher, newsmen's trade weekly. Last week the magazine's judges announced the winners: first, John Lindsay for Working on the Levee, a rhythmic frieze of Negro convicts toting sandbags in February's flood; second, James Keen for Lowland Madonna, another flood scene of a young refugee nursing her baby; third, Edward O'Haire for J. P. Morgan Listens, a shot taken at the Morgan Senatorial inquiry (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936) in which the financier, an Edwardian figure of immense substantiality, is shown leaning...
...151a clean sweep. But before Winners Lindsay and Keen could collect their $100 and $50 prizes (to be taken either in cash or photographic equipment), an unfortunate complication arose: Working on the Levee and Lowland Madonna were declared ineligible. Editor & Publisher suddenly remembered that the Ohio-Mississippi flood occurred this year, not last, and that the contest had been limited to 1936 pictures. Apologizing handsomely, Editor & Publisher moved J. P. Morgan Listens up into first place and named two others for second and third. These were: second, an International News Photo re-enacted shot, by the New York Mirror...