Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Names of 30 patronesses for the Pi Eta musical "On the Level" which will be produced Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, as released yesterday by Richard R. Flood '39, show manager, number the following...
Miss F. M. Adams, Mrs. Jay R. Benton, Mrs. Thomas H. Bilodeau, Mrs. John Bowen, Mrs. W. H. Butler, Mrs. Howard T. Case, Mrs. Wilson D. Clark Jr., Mrs. Martin Evers, Mrs. James H. Flood, Mrs. Robert W. Palmer, Mrs. Richard V. Pedrick, Mrs. C. R. Porter, Mrs. Stanley B. Purdy, Mrs. C. O. Richardson, Mrs. Herbert Rogers, Mrs. M. L. Rogers, Mrs. Harry W. Russell, Mrs. Hollis L. Seavey, Mrs. Walter H. Sides, Mrs. S. G. Sleeper, Mrs. C. N. Smith, Mrs. Thomas K. Snyder, Mrs. Sidney St. F. Thaxter, Mrs. A. A. Thayer, Mrs. Richard M. Walsh...
Many a man is made by catastrophe. Ulysses Simpson Grant was made by the Civil War. Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini was made by the San Francisco Fire. Noah and Cincinnati's City Manager Clarence Addison Dykstra were alike floated up to eminence by a flood. Last week City Manager Dykstra, the most prominently mentioned candidate to succeed ousted Glenn Frank as President of the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Dec. 28; Jan. 18), met three of the University's Progressive regents in Chicago to discuss the job. He did not like having his salary cut from Cincinnati...
...much that he spent four years with similar organizations in Chicago and Los Angeles, where he worked up to be commissioner and director of personnel of the city water and power department before going to Cincinnati in 1930. During the worst of last January's flood City Manager Dykstra, granted unprecedented dictatorial powers by Cincinnati's city council, became a national hero by pluckily wading around in hip boots, staying at his desk for 36 hours at a stretch. Unanimously, drenched Cincinnati hailed him its saviour and hero...
...upward jerks of this kind in northern Ohio. Seismologists declare that the recovery from glacial compression is not yet complete, expect it to continue but never to attain destructive violence. Father Joseph Lynch, S. J., of Fordham University guessed last week that rise & fall of the Ohio River flood may have accelerated the snap-back process. Father Joseph Sebastian Joliat, S. J., of Cleveland's John Carroll University disagreed with him, pointed out that Ohio has had seven tremors attributable to postglacial snap-backs since...