Word: floods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never stood for public office before and "was a very much surprised man" when, in August, the Farmer-Laborites asked him to run. He accepted, promising Farm Relief, a Prohibition referendum, States' rights, the Smith program for Boulder Dam, the G. O. P. policy on immigration, "adequate" Federal flood control, a non-partisan Cabinet...
...days Calvin Coolidge and his wife traveled through Vermont, "up the east side, across and down the west side" of the Green Mountains. They saw how last year's flood destruction had been repaired. They stayed a night at Calvin Coolidge's 275-acre farm at Plymouth Notch. Housekeeper Aurora Pearce was ready for them with a fried chicken dinner and Presidential applesauce. Calvin Coolidge inspected his house from cellar to roof tree; also the barn, the hay rick, the new silo...
...should be debating farm relief . . . water power . . . flood control. . . . Reorganization of the Government in Washington in the interest of economy and greater efficiency...
...either as a mark of reprehensible precocity or as an encouraging sign of Intellectual alertness, has now become so common as to attract little more than passing notice. The scales are even beginning to tip in the opposite direction and the college public to become cloyed with an increasing flood of student opinions on courses, regulations, professional personalities and academic experiments...
Herr Hugenberg remained in the background while the Congress deliberated. But his lieutenant, General Director Ludwig Klitzsch of UFA, made a significant speech. He hinted at new tariffs to keep the flood of U. S. pictures from German theatres. He spoke of "cooperation in the European film industry and the word 'film-Europe,' " strongly suggestive of a European cartel aimed at the U. S. cinema industry. When he had finished, alarmed U. S. observers hastened to Paris to confer...