Word: floods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conferred at breakfast with Chairman Francis E. Warren ot che Senate Appropriations Committee, Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee, and a group of Senators and Representatives; discussed the Mississippi flood situation. Senators present included William E. Borah of Idaho and Edwin S. Broussard of Louisiana...
Finally he saw a flood of little square specks below. Flesh and sinew could hold out no longer. He dropped...
...Dayton, Ohio, a flat-bottomed boat which had seen service in the 1913 Dayton flood was put on exhibition with a sign: "THEY HELPED US IN 1913? LET'S HELP THEM...
...Rayville, La., inundated by flood waters, inhabitants sailed into stores in pirogues (similar to canoes); without disembarking made purchases from clerks mounted on platforms beneath which the flood water swirled...
...Flood water swamped Mer Rouge, La., scene of famed 1924 Ku Klux Klan-Captain Skipworth trial. Bastrop, La., also scene of Klan sensations, was threatened by advancing waters. The flood also menaced St. Martinsville, La., whither traveled Longfellow's Evangeline, where stands the famed Evangeline...