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...then surging and thundering into the river towns, killing 58 people, routing 550,000 from their homes, destroying millions of dollars worth of property in an area of 20,000 sq. mi. With the water 8 ft. above flood stage at Pittsburgh, 10 at Wheeling, 21 at Cincinnati at week's end (see map), the still-rising 1937 flood had already taken more lives than the 1936 inundation of the upper Ohio and Susquehanna slopes. For size and damage it was a far greater national disaster. In the lower Ohio Valley there never had been such a flood...
...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 stage went to 71, then 73, then...
Somehow a fire started and at week's end Cincinnati's firemen, police, citizens and even workhouse inmates were fighting not only flood but fire on a two-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...
...capably handled by an executive board chairman. But with an increased sense of work to be done, perhaps even of Reform to be unReformed so that Jews may keep together, the Union last week chose a man of calibre to be its president: Robert Phillips Goldman, 46-year-old Cincinnati lawyer. Although he is a devout worshipper at the Cincinnati Temple named for the founder of U. S. Reform, Isaac Mayer Wise, Lawyer Goldman has devoted his career to Reform of another kind. An authority on proportional representation, he did much backstage work in the Charter movement which ousted Cincinnati...
...Deal took enough interest in co-operatives to dispatch a commission to Europe to study them in their lushest environment (TIME, July 13). Treading close to the line of downright condemnation, Colonel Clarence Osborne Sherrill, head of the potent American Retail Federation and onetime city manager of Cincinnati, told the convention last week that the only thing the merchant had to fear was Government-subsidized cooperatives. Subsidies, cried...