Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forensic device, is a bad man to have for a political foe. In 1928 he delivered Mississippi to Al Smith 5-to-1, "me a Baptist, a dry and a Ku Klux Klansman," largely by this stratagem: In a Memphis burlesque theatre he announced that during the 1927 flood Herbert Hoover got off a train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just like asking old High-Collar Herbert...
...grey had gone to school. It tumbled down 77 primary schools in Osaka Prefecture, crushing 310 school children to death. It tugged down small skyscrapers. It swept away wood-&-paper houses like rubbish. An hour later it was gone, northward, but behind it came a tidal wave, to flood Osaka, Kobe and the carpet port of Sakai. It swept over a leper hospital and drowned 200, over an insane asylum and drowned 50. It tossed the 4,000-ton Batavia Maru onto a wharf, jammed the Ural Maru up a stone-curbed canal and drove the Zuiho Maru into...
Lean, high-strung Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, big boss of the young Chinese Nationalist Government, worries mightily about the old Chinese virtues of his people. What time he can spare from Communism, Famine, Flood, and Japan he devotes to a moral crusade of his own invention known as the New Life Movement. Neatly codified, the N. L. M. contains such rules...
...speak to tens of thousands, to my certain knowledge, in the United States of America this evening. There never was a time when, in your history, the devil had more nearly his right of way everywhere than he has under the Stars and Stripes today. Your beer parlors?your flood of liquor that is demoralizing your country?are like ours...
...concrete results of New Deal spending: the $31,000,000 hydroelectric and navigation dam at Bonneville on the Columbia River 40 miles above Portland; the $63,000,000 hydro-electric Grand Coulee Dam where the Columbia flows through the barren hills of central Washington; the $62,000,000 flood control dam at Fort Peck in Montana on the upper Missouri; the $65,000,000 dam at Devils Lake in North Dakota. By word and deed the President was determined to make the nation "dam-minded...