Word: anacostia
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Heavy rains undermined the Pennsylvania Railroad's bridge across the Anacostia River into Washington. Before dawn along came the Crescent Limited, crack Southern Railway train from New York to New Orleans. Under its weight the bridge went slithering, the locomotive sank in muddy ooze, its crew killed. Thirteen travelers were injured. Later in the week, rains washed out a switch near Tucumcari, New Mex., plunging seven cars of Rock Island's Golden State Limited into a swollen stream, killing six passengers, injuring some...
...Democrats probably will inhabit the deserted tents in Anacostia," she continued. "Why, they have completely done away with all formality at the White House. I was received there the other afternoon, if you call being herded into a room with 200 other people and waiting for the doors to open, a reception. The wife of a Republican state department official preceded me. When thanked by Mrs. Roosevelt, for what her husband had done, she said her husband had worked harder than he had for his own administration. 'Well, he had something to work on' was the squelching reply...
...adjourned. 2) Veterans were ejected from Government buildings needed for an improvement program which would increase employment. 3) Rioting was started by Communists and criminals bent on revolution. 4) The Army was not summoned until the police had lost control of the situation. 5) Dynamite was found in the Anacostia camp. 6) Many in the B. E. F. were not veterans but hoodlums and bums with forged discharge papers. 7) The troops were humane, did their job without hurting anybody...
...good overseas records; not one criminal record has been turned up among the B. E. F. 4) Police Superintendent Glassford had cleared the Government buildings and a truce on rioting had been declared an hour before troops were called. 5) Empty dynamite boxes had been used .to build Anacostia shanties. 6) Out of 8,000 members of the B. E. F. the Veterans Administration found only 500 who were not veterans; expelled from the B. E. F. were some 30 men with discharge certificates forged in a Philadelphia printing plant. 7) Driving women and children into the night with fire...
...some 8.000 men, women & children sprang up in an amusement park on the outskirts of town. It teemed with filth and flies. There was little or no food. One good storm would have devastated its pup tents, lean-tos and bough huts. As a camp, it made the Anacostia bivouac look like a regular Army post. Mayor McCloskey realized he and his city were in a serious predicament...