Rising Tide. - novelonlinefull.com
You’re read light novel Rising Tide. Part 34 online at NovelOnlineFull.com. Please use the follow button to get notification about the latest chapter next time when you visit NovelOnlineFull.com. Use F11 button to read novel in full-screen(PC only). Drop by anytime you want to read free – fast – latest novel. It’s great if you could leave a comment, share your opinion about the new chapters, new novel with others on the internet. We’ll do our best to bring you the finest, latest novel everyday. Enjoy
"exactness makes": Smith, p. 80.
the number of engineers: Edwin Layton, The Revolt of the Engineers The Revolt of the Engineers, p. 3.
"machinery is our": Robert Wohl, A Pa.s.sion for Wings A Pa.s.sion for Wings (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), quoted in A. Alverez, "Lonely Pa.s.sion," (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), quoted in A. Alverez, "Lonely Pa.s.sion," New York Review of Books New York Review of Books, February 2, 1995, p. 7.
Eads had played: Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, p. 174.
"The same principles": Layton, p. 143.
"[h]armony not discord": Quoted in David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas The Path Between the Seas, p. 563.
"[M]etaphysics has practically": Ibid., p. 59.
"The golden rule": Ibid., p. 67.
"a principle so full": Eads, St. Louis dinner, March 23, 1875, ALP ALP, p. 47.
"The Millennium": Samuel Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency, p. 124.
"The shop": Terry Reynolds, ed., The Engineer in America The Engineer in America, p. 408.
"By some false": Herman Bernstein, Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover, pp. 40-41.
"the average politician's": Layton, p. 147.
"directorate": See, for example, Thorstein Veblen, Engineers and the Price System Engineers and the Price System (New York: Viking, 1921), p. 141. (New York: Viking, 1921), p. 141.
"the engineering profession personified": Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 43.
"the world lives": Quoted in ibid., p. 59.
"the biggest figure": Schlesinger, p. 85.
Polish soldiers had executed: Bernstein, Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover, pp. 21-22.
"the only man": Schlesinger, p. 83.
"abandonment of": Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 37.
"the ruthlessness": Smith, p. 93.
"ordered liberty": Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 7.
"the social and economic": William Appleman Williams, "What This Country Needs," New York Review of Books New York Review of Books, November 5, 1970, p. 8.
"No civilization could": Hoover, American Individualism American Individualism, pp. 19, 22-23.
"[T]he real need": Ibid., p. 58.
"precise and efficient": Quoted in Layton, pp. 189-190; Hoover, American Individualism American Individualism, pp. 22, 58.
"abnormally shy": Henry Pringle, "Hoover: An Enigma Easily Misunderstood," World's Work World's Work 56 (June 1928), pp. 131-143. 56 (June 1928), pp. 131-143.
"the pneumatic drill": Smith, p. 53.
"those strong men": Lloyd, p. 82.
"He is certainly": Schlesinger, pp. 79-85.
"I am 100 percent": Schlesinger, pp. 79-85; Gary Best, "The Hoover-for-President Boom," pp. 228, 244.
Old Guard GOP senators: Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 80.
"I should prefer": See Robert Murray, "Herbert Hoover and the Harding Cabinet" in Ellis Hawley, Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce, p. 20.
"Hoover sees": Lloyd, p. 92 "organized": Ellis Hawley, "Herbert Hoover and Economic Stabilization 1921-22," in Hawley, Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce, p. 65.
Hoover then had the Federation: Layton, p. 203.
the Better Homes of America a.s.sociation: Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 111.
This group advocated: Ibid.; also, Ellis Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order, p. 114.
He helped make second mortgages: Rosenwald to Hoover, n.d., HHPL.
"We are pa.s.sing": Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 68.
"the most powerful": Michael Parrish, Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression (New York: Norton 1992), pp. 74-80. (New York: Norton 1992), pp. 74-80.
"not marked as coming": Lloyd, p. 66.
"among the few": NYT NYT, December 17, 1922.
Literary Digest ran a story: ran a story: Literary Digest Literary Digest, May 14, 1927; note that the magazine dated its issues far in advance of actual publication.
"Capital Mystified": NYT NYT, April 16, 1927.
"That man has offered": Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 124.
"consumed with ambition": Quoted in Richard Smith, An Uncommon Man An Uncommon Man, p. 144.
"I felt": Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 121.
CHAPTER T TWENTY-TWO.
"The Army Engineers": Unsigned Red Cross memorandum, "Conference Presidents Red Cross Committee," April 22, 1927; statement by Dwight Davis following conference, April 22, 1927; both in RCP.
"to use such government": Henry Baker to J. D. Cremer, August 1, 1928, RCP.
"In the course of": Quoted in Bruce Lohof, "Hoover and the 1927 Mississippi Flood," Ph.D. diss., p. 106.
"Essential push": Fieser to James McClintock, May 5, 1927; Fieser to Henry Baker, May 6, 1927; Fieser to T. R. Buchanan, May 9, 1927, all in RCP.
Hoover himself: Oral history of Turner Catledge, HHPL.
wire daily reports: F. D. Beneke to Edgar Jadwin, April 30, 1927, Office of the Adjutant General central files, NA, RG 94.
"squarely on": See memo from Henry Baker to Fieser, May 2, 1927, Box 741, RCP.
Hoover streamlined things more: Henry Baker to J. D. Cremer, August 1, 1928, RCP.
The Memphis mayor had a.s.signed: Oral history of Turner Catledge, HHPL.
he was bankrolling: William McCain, "The Life and Labor of Dennis Murphree," unpublished ms., 1950, MDAH.
Crosby would soon become: Wire from Simpson to Hoover, April 27, 1927, HHPL.
Only six people: Interview with Frank Hall, March 24 and December 18, 1992.
professional fisherman came: Foster Davis to Robert Bondy, May 4, 1927, RCP.
"I made myself": Interview recorded by historian Pete Daniel, who kindly shared tapes of interviews he conducted for his book Deep'n as It Come Deep'n as It Come.
The Clearing House a.s.sociation: Interview with Hunter Kimbrough, November 27, 1992.
"I go into Jim's Cafe": Daniel's interview tape.
"I searched": Ibid.
"He found one family": Daniel's interview with Virginia Pullen in Vicksburg, May 13, 1975.
"We could hear": Tape of panel discussion at Second Levee Break Celebration, Greenville, Miss., April 1990, loaned by Jack Gannon.
"I come here": Quoted in Daniel, p. 17; Oscar Johnston to H. W. Lee, Fine Cotton Spinners and Doublers a.s.soc., May 2, 1927, D&PLCP.
"For thirty-six hours": Percy, LL LL, p. 250.
"The Mississippi Delta": Van de Waltman to Commerce Department, April 29, 1927, RCP.
"just swelled up": Oral history of Henry Mascagni, August 8, 1977, MDAH.
"fully two hundred bodies": Fieser to A. L. Shafer, May 7, 1927, HHPL.
they took soundings: Interview with Frank Hall, December 23, 1992; also Daniel's 1975 interview with Caillouet.
"[e]very relief boat": See, for example, Spalding to District Engineer, Louisville, Kentucky, April 26, 1927, RC, RG 2, box 740.
"I am speaking": Radio address, May 1, 1927, HHPL.
"The swiftly moving current": NYT NYT, May 6, 1927.
"Today it is possible": MC-A MC-A, May 5, 1927.
"For mile after mile": NYT NYT, May 6, 1927.
CHAPTER T TWENTY-THREE.
"First in Cairo": NYT NYT, May 9, 1927.
"[Failure would] increase": Ibid.; NYT NYT, May 10, 1927.
"We wish that": Quoted in Bruce Lohof, "Herbert Hoover, Spokesman for Human Efficiency," p. 694.
The flood, hemmed in: Report of Board of [Louisiana] State Engineers Report of Board of [Louisiana] State Engineers, 1929, pp. 98-99.
"of tremendous proportions": Isaac Cline, "Daily Flood Bulletin," May 12, 1927, Louisiana Collection, TUL.
"immense deposits": Paul Dettmer, "Final Melville Report," May 15, 1928, RCP, box 737.
"a veritable wall": NYT NYT, May 19, 1927.
"Their bodies were found": NYT NYT, May 17, 1927.
"A wall of water": AP story appearing in MC-A MC-A, May 24, 1927.
"All population": Hoover to Coolidge, May 24, 1927, HHPL.
"Imperative that refugees": Hoover to Jadwin, May 13, 1927, RCP.
The War Department: See Jadwin to Hoover, May 17, 1927; Hoover to Jadwin, June 5, 1927, RCP.
the flood put as much: See American Red Cross, The Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster of 1927: Official Report of Operations The Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster of 1927: Official Report of Operations (Washington, D.C., 1928), pp. 39-46. (Washington, D.C., 1928), pp. 39-46.
"concentration camps": Ibid.
"not necessarily reliable": DeWitt Smith to Hoover, January 21, 1928, RCP.
