Word: floods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flood conditions in Harvard Square have abated enough to make navigation practical as far as the Yard, the Vagabond has several lectures of special interest to visit today. Count Carlo Sforza, formerly French Ambassador to Italy, will speak in Harvard 6 at 2 o'clock on "The New Fascist State", and the opportunity to add to his knowledge of this great experiment from a first-hand authority should not be missed by any vagabonder...
...Hoover is ever cautious. He will sequester himself in his S street home, strive to cast no shadows at all. ¶Mr. Hoover and his party skipped all over southern Florida last week. Bad weather drove him back from his west coast tarpon fishing. He inspected the Okeechobee flood area, saw tent colonies, praised sugar cane and truck growing in low black muck, heard politicians wisecrack about the election and fish for federal aid. At Palm Beach he was feted at the Bath and Tennis Club. At Fort Lauderdale, 3,000 excited children mobbed him, swept him two blocks from...
Work Done. The Coolidge era has seen three great reductions in taxes, about five and a quarter billion dollars lopped off the public debt, the war debts refunded, adoption of the multilateral treaty renouncing war, the appropriation of 325 million dollars for Mississippi flood control, the 275-million dollar Federal buildings' program, the civil air program, the implanting of a tradition of economy in government...
...cost. The Bursum Spanish War pension bill he vetoed and by one vote his veto was sustained. A bill for government operation of Muscle Shoals he pocket-vetoed. By firm persuasion he saved the Treasury from "the most extortionate proposal . . . ever made upon the nation's revenues"- the flood control bill as originally conceived by Congress. This business also saved his party from a veto embarrassment that might well have been disastrous...
...ball, to sit in a Presidential box, at the Nautilus Hotel in Miami Beach. A curtly polite "No thanks" came from the Penney estate. On the date set he planned to be inspecting the dreary Okeechobee district where 2,000 persons lost their lives in last year's flood and hurricane...