Word: seabed
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...their houses, or sit on their porches and look out upon water-logged fields where nothing will grow. Where cotton has been planted, the farmers are faced with a new menace - a pestilence of worms which cut through the young plants as though with sharp saws. Said C. P. Seab, agricultural demonstration agent for the parish of Concordia: "In all America there are no people more penniless, un happy and with so little hope as these. "And Sheriff E. P. Campbell of Concordia said that 90% of the people in Texas and Catahoula had "not a cent in the world...
...recall reading where he has said a word about them since he went to Rapid City. . . . Mr. Hoover has done and is doing all he can but he is a lone eagle as far as the Government at Washington is concerned." And Mr. Seab (above mentioned), in almost the same words, said: "I know . . . that Mr. Hoover has and will continue to do everything he can . . . and the same is true of the Red Cross. But there it stops...
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