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...greatest of all. For a time at least the terrific impact of his victory had knocked the wind out of all opposition. Alf Landon's personal friend William Allen White publicly proclaimed: "It was not an election which the country has just undergone but a political Johnstown flood." On its front page Frank Knox's Chicago News editorially crowned "The President of the whole people of the United States . . . entitled to the support of all citizens...
...afternoon of May 31, 1889, a 16-year-old boy named Victor Heiser left his family home in Johnstown, Pa. to move two horses from the stable. He never returned. As he released the horses he heard a "dreadful roar . . . punctuated with a succession of tremendous crashes." He climbed to the top of the building. He saw his parents waving to him from a window, just before a wall of water and de-bris-"a dark mass in which seethed houses, freight cars, trees and animals"- struck the house, crushed it like an eggshell. With a self-possession unmatched...
Last week Victor Heiser began his memoirs with a seven-page account of his Johnstown flood experiences that proved to be the most vivid and interesting of the 544 pages in the book. Otherwise a rambling, ill-arranged, badly-proportioned, autobiographical miscellany, An American Doctor's Odyssey contained enough such passages scattered through it to make it the September choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club and to reward patient readers who were willing to wade through Dr. Reiser's account of his successes to find them...
Undeterred by such comments, the President last week continued his non-partisan activities which included: ¶ The ostentatious summoning to Washington of his Congressional finance heads to announce that no new taxes were in prospect. ¶ A trip by rail to Johnstown, in pivotal Pennsylvania, where he motored for two hours through last spring's flood regions, was cheered everywhere by great throngs, declared, "The Federal Government, so long as I have anything to do with it, is going to cooperate ... in taking every possible measure to prevent floods in the future...
...Forty-seven years after the flood which cost 2,200 lives and demolished the city, a similar flood taking an even greater toll of property ravaged the city of (1 Pittsburgh, Pa., 2 Hartford, Conn., 3 Johnstown, Pa., 4 Harper's Ferry, Md., 5 Cincinnati, Ohio...