Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year and again this year, Sena tor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia with many backers has sprung up to question Mr. Wallace's contention. For the chief disputed amendments-licensing and bookinspecting for processors-have nothing directly to do with carrying out AAA's program of "balancing" production of cotton, corn, hogs, wheat and other basic commodities. These new powers are for the purpose of letting AAA extend its control over other commodities. AAA answered this charge only in general terms. Said Chester Davis in a broadcast to farmers last month: "Unless the Act can be made...
...political tutor was his uncle, Henry De La Warr Flood, who in Woodrow Wilson's time was Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In the same era Harry Byrd was a freshman in the Virginia State Senate. He did not smoke and he did not drink (to this day his good natured brother Tom generally takes two drinks when they are passed, saying, "this is mine and this is Harry's") and he was not spectacular. But the time came when he led the Democrats in the State Senate and soundly trounced C. Bascom Slemp...
Last week, despite a score of arrests, the "Send-a-Dime" flood had spread to Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Spokane, Seattle, Nashville, New York and a dozen other cities. New ideas for cashing in on the scheme popped almost daily. One chain raised the ante to $1, another to $10. In Oklahoma recipients of chain letters were instructed to give a kiss to the person whose name was at the top "and surely he may find a true love among the 15,000-odd trading kisses." In Philadelphia, racketeers began hiring staffs to send out chain letters to "sucker...
Last week a mounting flood of protests and questions impelled him to appear on Father Coughlin's regular Sunday radio hour, state his position fully...
Most bankers would give credit for the current flood of corporate refunding, not to the Treasury, but to Chairman Joseph Patrick ("Joe") Kennedy of the Securities & Exchange Commission. It was his new simplified registration form for old, established companies that tempted bankers and their clients to risk operations under the Securities...