Word: jadwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these criticisms did the Army Engineers justice. The Army's flood-works were adapted from the plan submitted to Congress in 1927 by Major General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of Engineers. General Jadwin pointed out then that to reduce a Mississippi flood one foot meant holding out 7,000,000 to 11,000,000 acre-feet of water. If 8,000,000 acres of land were reforested and thereby .held back half an inch more water than would flow off farm land, a flood would be reduced just half an inch. On the question of building headwater reservoirs, Army Engineers...
...Army's flood control plan (General Jadwin's plan modified) was to provide protection from the maximum possible flood. Army Engineers and the Weather Bureau calculated this "superflood" by taking the maximum known flood of each of the Mississippi's great tributaries and assuming that they all hit the main river at once-which they have never done...
...seat. This year Senator Long has picked a neophyte Representative named John Holmes Overton to turn out Senator Broussard, give himself complete domination of Louisiana's Senatorial delegation. Campaigning vigorously, Senator Broussard has been denouncing the Long economic theories as Communistic, promising the people revision of the Jadwin flood control plan. That he did not expect to win the primary was indicated when he declared: "It will do me no good to take my case, if I am robbed, into the [State] courts, so I'm going straight into the Senate." With sound-truck and ballyhoo Senator Long...
Died. Lieut.-General Edgar Jadwin...
...President Hoover last week was having trouble finding suitable men to appoint to the reorganized Federal Power Commission and Tariff Commission. His supply of "new patriots" who would change lucrative private jobs for $12,000 public offices was running short. He had named Lieut. General Edgar Jadwin (retired) as chair-man of the Power Commission, only to have that onetime Chief of Army Engineers decline the appointment because of a cry of "Power Trust!" against him in the Senate. Of the other Commissioners the President explained: "They are required by law to be mixed in political color and must...