Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...routine appointment. It had been openly said in Washington that the President was looking for "another Goethals." General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of Engineers, retired on Aug. 7. On his successor devolves the duty of carrying out the Mississippi flood relief project which the President rates in importance if not in difficulty above the building of the Panama Canal. Flood Control is but one item on the inland waterways program...
...indication of the importance that he places on the Chief Engineer's post, the President let it be known that he was looking for three other warrior-engineer-executives. They will be General Brown's lieutenants, one in local charge of the flood relief project (Cairo, 111., to the Gulf), one in charge of the Mississippi developments north of Cairo, one in charge of the Great Lakes and proposed St. Lawrence waterway...
...judgment (and work) on part of the project (TIME, Sept. 23). The trouble brewing is the objections of landowners along the Boeuf and Atchafalaya Rivers. These are two subtributaries of the Mississippi which run practically parallel to the course of the great river in Louisiana and Arkansas. The flood relief plan devised under General Jadwin and adopted by Congress proposed that these valleys shall be used to draw off excess waters in times of great floods...
...Boston audiences" continued Mlle. Keila, "like jugglers. I am not a juggler." She expressed relief that in two weeks the show was to move to Spring-field, which, it was understood, though better than Boston, was still within the boundaries of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
Important as are the benefits which the school will receive from the model court room, the enlarged library with its immense reading room, and from the relief which new offices and class rooms will give to overcrowding, important as these material gains undoubtedly are, they seem somewhat overshadowed in the realization that is suggested this morning of the increasingly strong influence of the Law School on national life...