Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President enjoyed his state reception for Congress because it was smaller than usual. Reasons: influenza and flood...
...first time in history, under the influence of warm winter rains the White House lawn really needed to be mowed in January. Winter rains 600 miles to the west had a bigger influence on Washington politics. The Ohio-Mississippi flood had brought to the Capital an emergency atmosphere not unlike that of the early months of the New Deal. Congressmen once more hungered for Federal aid and Franklin Roosevelt resumed the prestige cf the Great White Father to whom all must appeal...
...million suffering citizens, how to mitigate $400,000,000 worth of property damage in Mid-U. S., how to save other millions in humanity and property from damage (see p. 17). The President sent Harry Hopkins and a group of experts out to reconnoitre the wake of the retreating flood...
Even a great flood could not, however, prevent other matters-of government from occupying the President's time...
...55th birthday (Jan. 30), Franklin Roosevelt, who now hopes to visit Warm Springs in March, broadcast to his annual birthday balls in cities throughout the nation his thanks for the nation's response to 1) the Red Cross $10.000.000 flood relief fund, 2) the infantile paralysis benefit for which the balls are held...