Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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True, "M'sieu Jean" (their name for onetime Louisiana Governor John M. Parker, now directing flood relief) had given danger warnings, had urged them to leave their homes and to gather in refugee camps. "M'sieu Jean" was a good man, a fine man?but perhaps a little inclined toward alarms. When one's fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers have lived in the same village and furrowed the same earth, one does not take oneself away without good reason. Floods ? There had always been floods, there would always be floods. Every spring the rivers rose and frightened strangers. True...
...Cutts '28 or Willard Howard '28 is the probable pitching choice for the University. After his success as relief twirler against Yale last June, Cutts has had a fair year thus far, lack of consistency being the drawback to his further effectiveness. Howard, former Harvard shortstop, has changed to the pitching mound only this spring, and thus far has hurled the University to victory over the Williams batters, whom he held to two hits, and pitched in the 3 to 3 tie played a week ago with the Alumni nine. HARVARD BROWN Burns c.f. l.f. Scribner Chase l.f. c.f. Edes...
From the point of view of the college undergraduate who leaves Cambridge for comic relief, the latest effort of sex filled Clara is blotto. The only relief is in seeing the bell hop-ushers dash fragrant gummers into their idea of ducal grandeur...
...weekly White House conferences, submitted their usual sheaf of written questions, most of them devoted to the O'Shea statement. Going through the bundle of queries, the successor to the White House Spokesman* answered one concerning the appointment of certain judges, one concerning the progress of flood relief, one concerning a treaty with Panama which settled the matter of competition between Panama merchants and U. S. Government stores in the Canal strip. He then bade the correspondents farewell...
...lose one single man, woman or child," ordered onetime Governor (now Flood Relief Director of Louisiana) John Milliken Parker last week, as flood waters broke through into central and southern Louisiana. Even as he was speaking, from 500 to 700 men, women and children were marooned on a twelve-mile remnant of what had been a 50-mile levee along the Bayou de Glaize. Scores of rescue boats struggled toward them...