Word: floods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While Administration friends cried "Determined!" and Administration foes cried "Stubborn!" President Coolidge once more refused to call, now or later, a special "flood relief session" of Congress...
...White House office came Herbert C. Hoover on a trip from the flood district. From the White House came a letter to Lewis E. Pierson, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, requesting further aid from that organization in raising some millions of dollars for flood relief work...
...Among other presidential visitors were: onetime Governor William Sproul of Pennsylvania, who introduced E. E. Loomis, President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad; Frank L. Perrin of the Christian Science Monitor; U. S. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, who discussed flood conditions; and the United States Champion Junior Dairy Judging Team...
Meanwhile some 1,800 delegates to the Mississippi Flood Control Conference clapped hands, stamped feet, as the Mayor mounted a platform over which hung a gigantic banner inscribed with the words, "America First." From the Sherman lobby came, intermittently, strains of a fife & drum corps which, aided by placards, advertised the conference...
...Aldred at M. I. T. The Vice President dwelt upon the diplomatic, consular, and state department services. Mr. Aldred happily called attention to the horizontal extent of the Public Service by speaking of the industrial and municipal engineering research in relation to city planning, water power development, conservation, and flood control. The City, the State, and the Nation need the college trained man as insistently as do the professions and the business world...