Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flood was, indeed, in its last stages?no grand finale but a slow seeping into the Gulf of Mexico. A comparatively small area in the extreme southern portion of the Atchafalaya River basin?was still experiencing tense moments, but no major levees had "gone out" and even in northern Louisiana the waters were falling...
Meanwhile, however, heavy rains in the central and northern Mississippi valley threatened, if not a renewal of flood conditions, at least a considerable lengthening of the time estimated for the receding of the waters...
...ratio of four to one-which means that the corporation will be able to borrow four times as much money as it raises. Meanwhile, Lewis E. Pierson, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and Eugene Meyer, chairman of the Farm Loan Board, began a campaign among Northern businessmen and bankers, asking them to match, dollar for dollar, the money being raised in Louisiana. Through these two movements Mr. Hoover estimated that $5,000,000 would be immediately available for reconstruction work in Louisiana...
...only the royal colors of Bavaria (white & light blue) streamed in the breeze. Impressionable, warmhearted, those jolly South-Germans were on a veritable spree of local patriotism. Prussia, land of shaven polls and square jaws, seemed alien and dis-tant-the Enemy, with its feverish industrialism and its cold, northern Berlin. They were Bavarians, and before them stood their "Rightful King." Was he not even a Hero-King? Certainly he had been a Feldmarschall during the War, and commanded troops which struck fast and far into enemy territory. Suddenly, in a bright emotional haze, there may have swum before minds...
Halle Bros, is one of perhaps a dozen stores known to department store men throughout the U. S. for excellency of merchandise and of service. It is to its selling region (which extends from western New York and Pennsylvania across northern Ohio to Indiana) what B. Altman & Co. and Lord & Taylor are to Manhattan; what Wanamaker's is to Philadelphia; R. H. Stearns to Boston; Marshall Field's to Chicago; White House to San Francisco; Bullock's to Los Angeles; Maison Blanche to New Orleans...