Word: bannerize
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Eight young patriots who approached the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo flaunting a skull banner last week were courteously received by experienced Councilor of Embassy Edwin L. Neville. After hearing their expostulations against the rigors of Japanese life in Arizona, Councilor Neville bowed the eight patriots out, saw them safely arrested by Tokyo police, rang up Tokyo papers to say that the Embassy had not called the police...
Republican cries to rally around the old banner seem an echo of a lost cause, whose only successful champions, like Senator Vandenburg of Michigan, now owe only nominal allegiance to the party. The Democrats have lured into their camp many magnates of the Hooverite stamp, such as Mr. Schwab, who correctly interpret the assurance of the Administration, that private profit will continue, as the salvation of capitalism in an unfriendly world...
...Hearst's altruism, and were rudely shocked when he was accused of ulterior motives. But the overwhelming majority came and went in firm opposition to his principles and methods. Talks by Hearst-writers Richard Washburn Child and Bainbridge Colby and indirect offers to become wavers of the Hearst banner did surprisingly little to alter their opinion. Drop in the bucket though it may have been, the money which rolled from the Hearstian coffers to smooth the surface can be written in the ledger with red ink. Mr. Hearst, it would seem, is pinning too much faith in human stupidity...
...Saar is some 70% Catholic. Saar priests have been having their quiet say. Above many a recent Saar mass meeting has been flown a banner with the strange device Jesus Is Our Leader, Not Hitler...
...slew of local stories, mostly short, and all written with a forced gaiety that would have made the Oregonian's late, great Editor Harvey Scott writhe in angry protest. Headlines were blacker, shallower. Inside were more and bigger pictures than Oregonian readers had ever seen. A banner headline glared across the sports page, and there were awful rumors that one might soon stream across Page One. Crowning horror was a Bible contest, with fat cash prizes and endorsement by local clergymen...