Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yarns about newshawks made the most readable matter in the Jubilee Number. Recalled was the enterprise of Dick Spillane who swam and rowed through the Galveston flood of 1900 (7,000 dead) to find a working telegraph wire, dictate a four-hour story to the New York Herald. "Cosey" Noble, Sunday editor of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, turned down several of Rudyard Kipling's now famed stories, presented in person, because "they were not up to the high literary standard of the Examiner." "Jim" Crown, city editor of the New Orleans States, locked all the doors...
...office to demand her reinstatement. According to the union account, General Johnson broke the engagement with the delegation and demanded the conference be postponed whereas Leader Donovan demanded and got an immediate hearing. Result: Mrs. Luke was reinstated. Then the General's pent-up feelings overflowed in a flood of Johnsonese. Regardless of consequences he did what few people thought he would dare do, and dismissed Leader Donovan for being "inefficient, insubordinate and absent from duty without leave." Said the NRA union: "In order to build a case, Donovan's immediate superior, Gustav Peck, was called...
...with "Blueberry Tom," the dog musher, if it was indeed he, remained a problem. The body of neither Frank Adams nor John Holmberg has ever been found to provide a corpus delicti for a murder charge. Some Indians buried Sweet Marie Schmidt in a sandy grave, but a flood came and washed her body away long...
...King of Italy and a group of Fascist physicists, one of Professor Fermi's admiring colleagues reported that, after wiping away a flood of electrons, he had smashed a batch of neutrons upon a piece of uranium which weighed 92 atomic units. For 13½ min., while it sputtered electrons, the uranium weighed 93 units. According to the Mendeleyeff Table it had no scientific business weighing more than uranium. During that period, reasoned Professor Fermi, the substance must have been not uranium, but hypothetical Element...
Looking further ahead, it is important that these changes be extended to include the Freshmen. For the present, it would be ridiculous to propose such a regime for them because their secondary school education does not equip them for such a burden. As the CRIMSON has often reiterated, the flood of men who come from high schools and private schools to Harvard each year need to be treated like so many babies and in addition require survey courses which would best find their place in a school curriculum. This is not only wrong: it is a positive hindrance...