Word: bannerize
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...drought-stricken Texas last week, a dust storm blew up over the Government's $150-million emergency relief program. In his weekly Rails Banner, Editor Ernest Joiner declared: "Fully half of the aid given here has gone into the hands of wealthy men. This writer, for one, is damned tired of his hard-earned money going into the pockets of wealthy...
Last week, pinned down between the Press and the Bar Association investigations of his conduct on and off the bench, the harassed judge made one more banner headline: BREWER QUITS BENCH AND BAR, WILL RESTORE $6,300 SHORTAGES. Reluctantly, Brewer admitted that he was unable after many years to "present records or recollect facts," concluded, "Clearly, I have been careless...
Bill Howland was speaking with a veteran's authority of 38 years in the newsgathering business (Nashville Tennessean and Banner, Atlanta Journal, Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel). A New York State Yankee by birth and a graduate of Princeton, Howland has spent his professional life in the South. His first job was on the Nashville Tennessean, and he nearly lost it when he wrote a fantasy on what the monkeys in the zoo thought of William Jennings Bryan's role in the great evolution debate. He wrote the first story on the sensational attempt to rescue...
...Minot to the giant Garrison Dam. It was a ride reminiscent of the great days of the 1952 campaign. At intersections and in the small, dusty towns along Route 83, farmers and their families gathered to wave at the President. Here and there a well-worn "I Like Ike" banner appeared, and in Bismarck, one shapely young woman in a black bathing suit had plastered the word "Ike" across her waist in white tape...
...season's final concert of Washington's National Gallery Orchestra last week was no place for cold-blooded Yankees. The west court of the gallery rang with the words and music of such songs as The Bonnie Blue Flag, The Conquered Banner, the sentimental love song Lorena, and for a finale, Dixie, with a 40-voice chorus giving the rebel yell...