Word: floods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meeting in Manhattan last spring, the three-year-old American Newspaper Guild voted to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. Since that time a whole flood of new water has flowed under U. S. Labor's bridge. No one was greatly surprised when the Guild, one of the youngest U. S. craft unions, met in St. Louis last week and voted to turn itself into an industrial union and to join the Committee for Industrial Organization, A. F. of L.'s insurgent offshoot. The only embarrassing aspect of this switch was that the Guild borrowed...
When the bill first came up, a fierce battalion of pork-seekers took it to a committee-of-the-whole and earmarked $505,000,000 for flood and drought control, roads and public works. A hot battle began. With earmarkers in control, the House began to approve pork amendments one after the other. Baring their teeth, they passed an amendment knocking $2,000 off Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins' $12,000 salary. Administrator leaders had to filibuster to keep the earmarked bill from being passed. Finally, assured by Leader Rayburn that he had just talked with the President and could...
Just what was done for "every man, every section, every project" in the interim, no one would say definitely when the bill was taken up again one day last week. But that something had been done was immediately evident. Alabama's Joe Starnes, flood control bloc leader, let it be known that he had "positive assurance" that there would be flood control pork, earmarking or no earmarking. New York's Alfred Beiter declared the Public Works bloc had done "better than we bargained for." Texas' Marvin Jones did not conceal his opinion that he would get much...
...Standard Theatre. In 1883 Henderson joined the staff of the New York Times, and four years later he was made its music critic. But editors did not forget Billy Henderson's fine news stories on the death of William Henry Vanderbilt and the blowing up of Flood Rock. When, in 1889, the great flood destroyed Johnstown, Pa., the Times sent him to get the story...
Today paper money looks better than gold, and hoarded gold is coming out to swell the record flood of newly-mined metal. Virtually all the gold that came on the market last week was disgorged by frightened hoarders. When the hoarders get really panicky only one thing will calm them: a word from President Roosevelt. At his Friday press conference, the President emphatically declared that there was nothing to worry about...