Word: floods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politics, Gerald Winrod's fame dates from a day in 1937 when, driving his wife to Mexico for her health, he heard of Franklin Roosevelt's Court-packing plan over his automobile's radio. Immediately he telephoned back to Wichita, released a flood of anti-Court Plan pamphlets, threatened to snow Congress under with a million petitions...
Speaking at Louisville, Ky. he dwelt on flood control in similar statesmanlike perspective : ''When I went to Washington nearly six years ago, I found that there were many different agencies . . . dealing with disasters . . . but there was no coordination between them. That flood last year on the Ohio and the Mississippi gave me an opportunity to test out the new machinery which I created...
...another proof of the necessity of planning, and a lot of people laugh about all the planning that we are doing in Washington. In the long run, taking just flood prevention as one of many examples-in the long run, we will save hundreds of millions of dollars by planning for the future." In Bowling Green, he summoned up the spirit of the era of Roosevelt II: "You cannot compare the conditions of 1932 with the conditions of 1938. I sort of sense a deep understanding, a human happiness in the hearts and in the minds of the great majority...
...Notable among bills last week signed by the President: Flood Control ($375,000,000 authorized), vesting power in the U. S. to take title to all projects it wholly finances; Food & Drugs (requiring more detailed labels, forbidding harmful cosmetics, last work of New York's late Senator Copeland); La Follette Anti-Strike breaking (amendments prohibiting interstate transport of strikebreakers); Permanent Postmasters (ensuring 14,500 life jobs); Wages-&-Hours (its Pennsylvania prototype was last week declared unconstitutional-see p. 12); Mt. Olympus National Park...
...Yellow River front, their drive on Hankow halted, Japanese armies still waited for the flood waters of "China's Sorrow" to subside. South on the Yangtze River, the main naval drive upstream on Hankow received a temporary setback at Matang, where the Chinese had blocked the stream with a boom. Finally, aided by the rising river waters, a few vessels nosed across and at week's end had pushed their way to Pengtseh, some 175 miles from Hankow...