Word: banners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inventor Edward R. Armstrong (TIME. Oct. 28). Senator de Mery urged the French delegation to the London parley to bring up this matter in connection with U. S. naval strength, warning that otherwise "just outside our territorial waters we will someday likely see islands appear flying the Star-Spangled Banner...
...Girls in bulky costumes typified Solid Land. In Act II a band of Sioux chased a band of Pawnees, then performed a Sun Dance. Next came Spanish conquistadors, French Jesuits, Scouts Lewis and Clark, frontiersmen, Stephen A. Douglas. To end the pageant all joined in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and saluting the flag...
...round face moon-pale, Mayor Boess stood by the rail of the superspeedy S S. Bremen as she was warped into her pier at Bremerhaven. Dock police were struggling with shouting Communists who strove to hold aloft a six-foot banner on which the words BOESS-SKLAREK were accusingly visible. Deep boos, shrill whistles echoed from the dockside...
Important Folk. Dr. Walther Simons, onetime (1925) Acting President of the German Reich, onetime (1922-29) President of the German Supreme Court, was introduced as the guest of honor by past-President Silas Hardy Strawn after an organ rendition of "Tannenbaum" and "The Star-Spangled Banner." Dr. Simons compared the relation of the German and U. S. judiciaries to the executive and legislative branches of their governments. Hoped he: that the German Supreme Court would "reach the place in Germany that the Supreme Court holds in the United States...
...Rear-Admiral Moffett the gold rivet and a silver-plated hand riveting machine, which looks like a dentist's forceps. Admiral Moffett places the rivet in the proper hole, squeezes it with his little machine. The band plays "Pomp and Circumstance." The band then plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" and the gathering breaks up. That evening there is a dinner at Akron's Portage Country Club...