Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio Valley and part of the Mississippi by an unparalleled flood (see p. 12). Admiral Grayson, as chairman of the Red Cross, Admiral Leahy, as chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral Waesche as commandant of the Coast Guard, General Craig as Army Chief of Staff, Harry Hopkins as Relief Administrator and CCC Director Fechner assembled with the President to set the wheels of succor turning day & night for 400,000 flood victims. And the flood was merely one more unexpected item in the torrent of events which proceeded to baptize the new term. One day John L. Lewis boldly demanded...
Thursday at n p. m. City Manager Frank Sheehan ordered sirens and factory whistles to be sounded and sewers were opened in the lower sections of Portsmouth so that the town could flood itself in self-defense. The National Guard and other relief agencies began sending 25,000 inhabitants to Chillicothe and Columbus. "The Bottoms'' of Cincinnati is the wholesale and tenement district from which the rest of the town, perched like Rome on seven hills, lifts the hem of its municipal garment. Last week, after an unprecedented rainfall of ten in. in ten days, as the river...
...mile front. By vote of the city council. City Manager C. A. Dykstra was given dictatorial powers to deal with the situation as he thought best. Property damage: $5,000,000. Indiana. Evansville, Funnyman Joe Cook's hometown, was made base of the Coast Guard's relief forces. While 40 horses were rescued from the Dade Park race track, amphibians roared in from the Atlantic coast and radio-equipped surf boats arrived from the Chicago station. Indianapolis diked itself in after a body was seen floating down the White River. Kentucky's Green, Kentucky and other rivers...
Hooked to a national circuit, WHAS was busy day and night directing local relief workers for miles up and down the river. Frankfort, where 1.500 families took to the hills when the Kentucky river flooded the State capital, was reported to be the scene of the catastrophe's most brutal and piteous event. As the water rose in the Frankfort Reformatory. 2,900 panic-stricken prisoners began fighting...
...militia was posted as usual on its side to keep Arkansans and Missourians from doing the opposite thing. "Stupid!" While Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson of the Red Cross launched a drive for $4,000,000 for flood sufferers, while Harry Hopkins put 40.000 WPA workers on rescue and relief work, while President Roosevelt mobilized Army, Navy, Coast Guard, CCC and announced that he was "taking personal charge" of the Government's relief forces, one voice raucously raised the question: How did it happen? At Memphis this week Army Engineers expect the Mississippi to reach the 53-ft. level...