Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are no two more ardent Democrats than the Senators from Virginia. But Carter Glass's outspokenness against most New Deal policies is hardly newsworthy any more. Harry Flood Byrd* on the other hand has mostly followed the New Deal's desires. Day after Senator Wagner left the reservation, Senator Byrd followed him, moved also by convictions but of a different kind. Said he: "The course we are pursuing-borrowing money for public expenditures and increasing our enormous deficit each year-will chill the confidence of businessmen in the future prospects of reasonable profits. . . . Business is ready...
...Crosse, Wis. But plenty of stages were so tiny that the stage hands had to stand behind the flats to hold them up. The only time the show did not actually go on in all its five years was at Memphis. A mighty Act of God, the Mississippi flood two months ago washed out the railroad, canceled one matinee of the pious spectacle...
...jugglers of statistics and ideas, they have much to learn from the government. To obscure the issue, and to create a fantastically low rate-base, the Norrisses and Wheelers with the able assistance of Mr. Roosevelt, have written off huge sums as "sinking-fund expenditures" for work relief, navigation, flood-control, nitrate manufacture, and similar projects. This remarkable feat in bookkeeping enables the T.V.A. fathers to call the power created, estimated as enough for several states, just "surplus." Further, the "charging off" to unproductive uses permits a charmingly low rate base for which, apparently, nobody pays--except the whole body...
Even as Father Coughlin spoke the telegrams were flooding into Washington. Messengers carted them by wheelbarrow loads to the Senate Office Building. Pennsylvania's Davis and Guffey were enjoined to vote against the Court by the Squirrel Hill Station, Pa. Sunday School. As the flood mounted Western Union was forced to hire 35 extra clerks, Postal Telegraph...
...canvas of the evacuation of a Missouri farmhouse: the ruthless soldiers, the fainting mother, the weeping daughters, the stalwart father. When in 1879 Thomas Ewing ran for Governor of Ohio, George Caleb Bingham sent Martial Law junketing from town to town in that State on the crest of a flood of anti-Ewing pamphlets. General Ewing was defeated...