WAVE Radio : flood records, 1937, Jan. 22-Mar. 4.

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WAVE Radio : flood records, 1937, Jan. 22-Mar. 4.

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Radio broadcasts and bulletins by WAVE, 22 Jan.-4 Mar. 1937, regarding the 1937 flood. Included are weather reports; statistics on flood levels; requests by Louisville mayor Neville Miller for help; descriptions of fires, devastation, closed roads and railroads, water shortages, and power failures; advice as to hygienic safeguards; and information on refugee locations, law enforcement, and rescue efforts.

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The Filson Historical Society

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Miller, Neville, 1894-1977

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Neville Miller (1894-1977) was the son of Shackelford Miller, Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and his wife Mary. He attended Louisville Male High School before he earned his bachelor's degree at Princeton in 1916 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1920. He became first dean of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville in 1930. He was mayor of Louisville from 1933 to 1937. In 1945, Miller opened a private law practice in Washington, D.C. ...