Word: floods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mixed in with the final flood of departmental work there were, of course, many political conferences and duties. There was the notification speech, for delivery in Palo Alto on August 11, to be completed. Nominee Hoover consulted men like Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor and President Lewis T. Taber of the National Grange to make sure he would say just the right things on August...
...Floods. "The Mississippi Valley flood . . . was met with energetic action by the Republican Administration...
...Congress promptly passed legislation authorizing the expenditure of $325,000,000 for the construction of flood control works, which it is believed will prevent the recurrence of such a disaster...
Unimpressed by the new importance of the Beaver Man, enemy of floods, angry rivers burst dykes, fell upon Arkansas and Missouri farmers. Hundreds scurried to the safety of high hills, driving kin and kine before them. In their wake came the flood waters of the White River, deluging 40,000 acres in Arkansas. Missourians fought the rising St. Francis, already claiming 25,000 acres, with the crest yet to come. Mississippi valley dwellers remembered 1927, wondered if the Beaver Man would help...
...challenge. . . . Expenditure will be kept inside revenue, no matter what the decrease in revenue may be." General Lord stared the deficit in the face, recalled the black days of 1919: "In certain localities it is the custom to refer to the year of the big snow or the great flood. ... I think our Treasury will always refer to 1919 as the year of the big debt and big deficit" (debt, $26,596,701,648.01; deficit, $13,370,637,568.60). But happier days are at hand: (estimated debt, June 30, 1928, $17,650,000,000; surplus...