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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fired at from the shore-probably as a hint to keep midstream lest the wash endanger a levee. The Red Cross quickly collected a $5,000,000 relief fund, began a drive for $5,000,000 more. Pestilence and curtailed water supply threatened crowded refugee camps. Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas asked the Red Cross for enough smallpox and typhoid vaccine to inoculate 25,000 persons. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas suggested a special session of Congress to provide funds for relief work; President Coolidge decided that the emergency would be over before Congress could assemble and make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: At New Orleans | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...following article was written to the Crimson ry J. R. Hamlen 04, Chair man of the Harvard Fund Council, who has just returned from the district afflicted by the Mississippi floods, wher he attended the Memphis Convention a Harvard Clubs. Mr. Hamlen travelle extensively through the inundated area after the convention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPORTS OF MISSISSIPPI FLOODS UNMAGNIFIED | 5/6/1927 | See Source »

President Coolidge proclaimed that "the situation is indeed grave," appointed a special committee- Secretaries Hoover, Mellon, Wilbur and Dwight Filley Davis-to cooperate with the Red Cross, which called for a $5,000,000 flood relief fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Deluge | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...result of a questionnaire which drew replies from over 80% of the 9,400 alumni of the Harvard Law School were made public yesterday by W. M. Powell '95, National Chairman of the Harvard Law School Endowment fund, disclosing the striking fact that approximately six-sevenths of those who responded to the questionnaire now hold public or quasi-public positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW SCHOOL GRADUATES HAVE SPLENDID RECORDS | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

During the week M. le President Gaston Doumergue, beady-eyed, humorous, possessed of the most supple and successful fund of political tact in France?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: La Semaine du President | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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