Word: valley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Omnibus Flood Control bill, authorizing $320,000,000 for reservoirs, dams, levees and spillways throughout the land; and a complementary $272,000,000 bill, sponsored by Louisiana's Overton, for flood control in the lower Mississippi Valley. Bursting with political pork, the Omnibus bill was passed by the House four days before adjournment last August, filibustered to death in the Senate by Maryland's Tydings. Revived by the floods of last March, it was pared of its local favors by a stern economy order from President Roosevelt. Called by Senator Copeland "the first porkless water bill ever passed...
Announcing in Manhattan last week that he and Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend had joined forces to oust President Roosevelt from office, Rev. Gerald L. K. ("Share-the-Wealth") Smith declared: "Last Saturday night Dr. Townsend and I stood under the historic arch in Valley Forge and vowed to take over the Government...
Designed by Cram & Ferguson, present architects of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the small marble chapel stands opposite Mrs. Harris' old home, "In the Valley." Present for the dedication were Hamilton Holt and Managing Editor John Paschall of the Atlanta Journal, which published her last work. Editor George Horace Lorimer of the Satevepost sent a literary tribute which was read. He also editorialized in last week's Post: "Long may the memory of Corra Harris remain green. Long may pilgrims visit her exquisite little chapel and behold her simple homestead, still open to visitors...
...69th annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Long Island in the Cathedral of the Incarnation at Garden City went Banker J, P. Morgan as a delegate from St. John's of Lattingtown Church in Locust Valley, where he usually takes up the collection. Cornered by photographers with his friend the Rev. William R. Watson, he grumped : "I don't see why they take my picture. They must be a drug on the market...
...Oceanographer's survey reveals that the old Hudson valley continued for 130 miles southeast of Sandy Hook. The valley was only a few fathoms deeper than its banks for the first 85 miles. At that point the present sounding is 600 ft. Then the river began to cut deeper. Few miles farther on the gorge is 2,400 ft. deep, eight miles wide, and its bottom is 3.000 ft. below present sea level. Greatest depth of the gorge from brink to bottom is 3.600 ft., which beats Colorado's Royal Gorge by 1,000 ft. It becomes shallower...