Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles' citizens, Los Angeles' terrain failed to absorb the water. From the San Bernardino hills behind the city, the mountains behind the hills, it sluiced down across the narrow coastal plain on which the city and its scattered suburbs sprawl over 482 square miles. Three days of storm filled the shallow arroyos which are dry most of the year; four sent the water pouring over streets and into houses, crashed bridges, washed out hillsides. The rain continued. When it finally stopped after five appalling days, Los Angeles had had the worst flood in its history, the most drastic...
...Angeles' reaction to its flood last week was naturally somewhat like that of a cinema producer whose top-price star creates public scandal: a desire to minimize it as far as possible. Fifth day of the storm an emergency hookup was arranged so that Mayor Frank L. Shaw could send a message by short wave to San Francisco where it was rebroadcast to the alarmed nation over the Columbia network. Said Mayor Shaw: "We have not suffered a major disaster in any sense of the word . . . regret . . . unfounded reports to the contrary. . . . The sun is shining over Southern California...
...Professor Dodd. They highly approved the arrival of Ambassador Wilson in faultless full dress, white tie and the black waistcoat correct in Europe on such occasions. Der Führer, although he addresses the Reichstag and makes nearly all his public appearances in the khaki of a simple Storm Trooper, received Ambassador Wilson dressed exactly like...
...Note:The Crimson did not intend any personal reflection in the editorial "Pals at the Polls"; it merely wondered about the validity of a Committee which as yet has done little more than cant and storm. Still in the same mood the Crimson wonders what success has been made with the petition which the Committee for Electoral Reform has so often mentioned...
German newspapers gave less than usual encouragement last week to Austrian Nazis, but many Austrians feared this as an ominous lull before a bloody storm. Men pointed out that Berlin was one of the last great German cities to go Nazi, that Austrian Nazis might conquer Austria from Graz, as Hitler conquered Germany from Munich. If the French would fight a German invasion of Austria, it is by no means certain they would invade Austria to suppress an uprising by Austrian Nazis. General Franco has not had to fight the French Army, and it is unlikely that Hitler would give...