Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislate Communism out of the halls of learning. One of the bill's supporters--in order to be doubly safe-guarded against subversive influences--even proposed that all school employees be required to take the oath of allegiance once a week. Communism certainly must be more of a flood than is commonly supposed, if all the cracks have to be caulked weekly...
...hell you didn't tell the world that General MacArthur is a native of Arkansas? Our State is cussed and discussed for everything from illiteracy and share croppers to flood and drought and when something to its credit unexpectedly turns up it should be given a break...
That situation Premier Flandin handled, as well as he could, by sending France's Minister of Commerce Paul Marchandeau to Brussels this week. There M. Marchandeau will tell Belgian Premier Paul van Zeeland that France, unable to permit Belgium to flood her with goods at devaluation prices, must follow Great Britain in upping tariffs against Belgium. In the French Chamber, despite a croak from No. 1 French Socialist Leon Blum, the Deputies of France voted rousing gold standard confidence in the Flandin Government...
...which all good Southerners insist on calling "The War Between the States." Chickamauga, Gettysburg, Shiloh, The Wilderness are names that mean more to the U. S. than Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood. The flood-tide of histories about the Civil War, with its cross-waves of controversial memoirs and the bickerings of aged generals, has passed, but good books on the subject are still being written. This week appeared the latest and one of the most readable...
...swung into action. The Sentinels are 1,500 dues-paying and 10.000 non-paying patriots who have devoted themselves to sniping at Prohibition, the Child Labor Amendment, the Federal Office of Education and the New Deal. Last February they began to pepper Washington with petitions against the "pink slip," flood the land with letters, circulars, advertisements, radio speeches urging citizens to write their Congressmen about the "outrage." The time was politically ripe because taxpayers were just making out their Federal returns, filling in the facts about their income on the pink slips that went with each return. Suddenly amazed Senators...