Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firemen, police, citizens and even workhouse inmates were fighting not only flood but fire on a two-mile front. By vote of the city council. City Manager C. A. Dykstra was given dictatorial powers to deal with the situation as he thought best. Property damage: $5,000,000. Indiana. Evansville, Funnyman Joe Cook's hometown, was made base of the Coast Guard's relief forces. While 40 horses were rescued from the Dade Park race track, amphibians roared in from the Atlantic coast and radio-equipped surf boats arrived from the Chicago station. Indianapolis diked itself in after...
...worse, the water was only 45.6 ft. at Memphis. Yet last week Memphis was not badly worried, because in the past eight years the Army's brains and Congressional generosity have provided the Mississippi with a flood control system whose limits will supposedly never be approached. Why, stormed Indiana's Representative Glenn Griswold, was not something like that done about the Ohio? It was "stupid," said he, to build levees on the Mississippi to hold floods which rose and did their first damage on the Ohio. "It seems to me," said this Democratic member of the House Flood...
Coaxed into posing together at the Miami Biltmore Hotel were George Ade, 71, oldtime Indiana humorist, lately recuperated from a lung infection, and Annette Kellerman, 49. oldtime exhibition natator. scheduled for a Miami exhibition next month. Mr. Ade. as quoted by Miami publicity men: "This is the first time I have been requested to pose with a bathing beauty and I am nattered." On an African pleasure cruise, during which he will write on health conditions. sailed Dr. Victor George Reiser (An American Doctor's Odyssey) with two rich, adventure-seeking friends, bachelor Manhattan Socialite Alec Hutchinson...
...Chicago's Century of Progress Exhibition, the State of Indiana commissioned him to do a gigantic panorama which was one of the outstanding hits of the Fair, now lies in a warehouse waiting a permanent home. Missourians suddenly remembered that Tom Benton was a native son, urged him to come home and do a job of work for the State House. Artist Benton agreed to decorate the Representatives' Lounge...
Some Europeans still believe that there are wild Indians in Indiana and buffaloes in Buffalo. Most Europeans still believe that Chicago's streets echo daily with gangster gunfire. No such ignoramus is Emile E. C. Mathis, French motor car tycoon who has visited the U. S. many times. Last week he and handsome Mme Mathis were in the U. S. again. One evening in Manhattan they made a gay night of it at swank restaurants and night clubs, winding up with scrambled eggs & coffee at famed Reuben's ("That's All") all-night restaurant on 58th Street...