Word: floods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excerpts of the unfamiliar sort. They are not abundant. They include, of course, part of the famed Hoover essay, "In Praise of Izaak Walton," published last year in the Atlantic Monthly (TIME, June 6, 1927). There is also the familiar bit about "Main Street Under Water" (the Mississippi flood...
...Briand manfully braving the pinkish white glare of the flood lights made a speech which was later translated into English. He returned compliments to Secretary Kellogg and paid homage to first signator Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of Germany...
Died. Brig. Gen. Charles Lewis Potter, 64, onetime (1920-28) president of the Mississippi River Commission, immediately recalled to active service after his retirement last January to supervise Congressional flood control legislation; following an intestinal operation; in St. Louis...
...years ago) young Herbert Hoover hunted a job there. It was a non-political speech, unless the following was politically construed: "The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers. . . . This incoming flood of prosperity, if it be guided aright, will enable you to add further to the beauty of this city and the comfort of its people." ¶ The welcoming ceremony, delayed a week because of Mrs. Hoover's father's death (TIME, July 30), was by no means the most...
Vice Chairmen-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, a shrewd local boss (not without aspersions on his political reputation); Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, industrious, patrician; Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, onetime (1025-27) Governor; onetime (1907-21) U. S. Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma, farmers' friend; Florence Gardiner Farley of Kansas, famed suffragette...