Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GROVER CLEVELAND"* Hardly had the words left the Clerk's mouth when Senator Bailey of North Carolina cried: "Mr. President, a sufficient answer to the message from former President Cleveland is the statement that he was President in horse-&-buggy days...
...from a passing skiff which promptly sank under him. Before a boatload of cameramen would rescue him they made him turn his profile so they could take his picture (see cut). A few miles farther down the sloshing water seemed to have no shore. In Paducah, Ky., at the mouth of the Tennessee River, the Coast Guard reported that 30% of the town was flooded and all families were ordered out of the city. Mound City, on the Illinois shore, stood as a snow-covered rectangle until the yellow waters filled it up. And down at the mouth...
...such was the New Madrid Floodway through a strip of eastern Missouri below Cairo. Another was the Eudora Floodway, in Arkansas and Louisiana, to carry floods from the neighborhood of the mouth of the Arkansas River to the mouth of the Red River. The third was the Atchafalaya Floodway from near the Red River to the Gulf, west of New Orleans, a route only half as long as the main channel of the Mississippi. Instead of being raised three feet like other levees, the "fuse plug" levees at the mouths of these floodways were left at the old level...
...educators perpetually talk poor mouth. Nevertheless, one-seventh of all public moneys goes to public education, and for educational purposes the Carnegie Corporation alone disgorges $6,000,000 a year, the Rockefeller General Education Board another $9,400,000. In addition, educative projects are far more often benefited in the wills of rich men than any other type of philanthropy. Biggest educational windfall since 1924 when Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke established his Duke Endowment (present value approximately $53,000,000), dropped last week in Manhattan when the will of Banker Charles Hayden (TIME, Jan. 18) set aside the bulk...
...Argentine business" that bothered Mr. Mitchell is an unratified sanitary convention to replace the present embargo on Argentine meat, promulgated ostensibly to keep out foot & mouth disease. The sanitary convention would admit meat from uninfected Argentine districts instead of considering the whole country under a foot & mouth quarantine...