Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into national headquarters, after the Lindbergh speech, poured a flood of mail, which America Firsters broke down into the "for" and the "against." According to their tally, 93.3% of the letters were in Lindbergh's defense, usually taking the line that a great patriot was being maligned and attacked by interests with ulterior motives. Typical: "We know that the heart of this boy is Pure Gold. We know that in speaking to the American People he gives of his best." One Midwest chapter reported that it had lost three members, gained 60. Other chapters reported similar results...
...boys to stand firm. Don't let yourselves be fooled. Don't let yourselves be destroyed. We need you to save this nation, and to build in the future the "brave new world." If you are engulfed in the devouring flood of arms, swept away in blood as the youth of Europe are being swept away, then is our last hope gone. So for our sakes as well as yours, for the sake of the world and all that it holds for the future of the race, keep your sanity, preserve your reason, cling fast to peace. John Haynes Holmes...
...little TVA was originally planned to cost $37,500,000. It has since expanded into a $57,000,000 project. When it goes into operation around Dec. 1 the Santee-Cooper development will provide public power as far north as Raleigh, as far south as Jacksonville. It will control flood waters in the sleepy swamps along the Santee that once were rich rice plantations, are now desolate hunting and fishing preserves...
...Hellfire") Lanson's mountainous egoism crushed hers like a mouse. A good-looking, powerful, self-educated fellow-Swinburne was his favorite poet; Nietzsche was his god-Ed's flood of talk was mostly a lurid rehash of his reading. Ellen was too ignorant even to understand much of it, but it fascinated her. Ed was a good salesman, but he hated to kowtow to people, tossed up one job after another. He liked to stay away from home, living in hotels and boardinghouses...
...flood of acceptances rained on the CRIMSON from South Hadley yesterday as Mount Holyoke's dumber but more beautiful damsels finally caught on to the full implications of the editors' invitation to "Share Our Showers...