Word: floods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed in such-and-such forms, kept President Coolidge busily occupied, conferring, suggesting, protesting, making himself felt, making himself clear. The Senate's latest program of tax reduction had his approval; the McNary-Haugen farm marketing bill was probably riding to a veto; the Senate's flood-control bill was dubious and when it passed the House and went to conference, President Coolidge received its proponents again & again. He yielded stubbornly to their insistences and insisted on points of his own. The new week began with no one, not even President Coolidge, knowing whether Flood Control would...
...Bennett in Arlington National Cemetery was laid a wreath of ferns and calla lilies sent by President Coolidge. Two days later President Coolidge went to the chamber of the House of Representatives and gazed, during a state funeral service, at the catafalque and bier of his dead friend and Flood Control spokesman, Representative Martin Barnaby Madden of Illinois...
...Yard that will, saving only one building, be purged of all offense. And by the end of the week she may walk even in that building without unhappiness, for by then the offensively uncollegiate garments should be in the slums. Last year they were sent to the flood victims, but the arrival of uncollegiate clothing in New Hampshire was was looked upon as an impertinence in some of the better refugee circles. And however prejudiced the poor may be, Phillips Brooks House can still do the Christian thing by the rich. Lowella...
...figure was William Lorimer, once known as "the Blond Boss of Chicago," whose reception with other Flood lobbyists at the White House last autumn stirred up such an indignant buzz among fastidious citizens (TIME, Nov. 21). For 12 years (1895-1901; 1903-1909), Mr. Lorimer was a U. S. Representative. Then for bribery in his election, he was as Mr. Schafer bluntly put it "kicked out of the Senate." Mr. Schafer roared that Mr. Lorimer, aside from his political disrepute, should not be privileged to come back and sit in the House during a debate on Flood Control...
...floor of the House, where he could defend himself, the aging blond boss explained that his lumber company owned only 1,000 acres in the proposed floodway; that flood waters neither harmed nor helped his timber; that he was not seeking to sell anything to the U. S., would give his thousand acres. He said he had been interested in flood control work for 30 years...