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...Passed a bill by Alabama's Bankhead authorizing the expenditure of $1,000,000 per year for four years to help State vocational education. ¶ Received from Arkansas' Fuller a bill to require each & every Government employe to know by heart "The Star-Spangled Banner...
...Banner or Ranks? The same month in a letter to a North Carolina editor, Mr. Baker was out for "a revived Liberalism and a refreshed Idealism," a cause he wanted to fight for "whether carrying a banner or marching in the ranks...
...cartoon (Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader of the Senate, defying Louisiana's loud Democratic Senator Huey Pierce Long) and the caption ("The real issue in Washington . . . Patriotism vs Communism") were not very exciting. But the U. S. flag held by Senator Robinson and a Communist banner brandished by Senator Long, were in vivid, eye-smashing red. The U. S. flag's blue field was not shown; there was no other color in the picture. But the force of the cartoon was immeasurably increased by its red blotches. A patriotic eye could even imagine that...
...campus of St. John's College, Annapolis, stands a tulip poplar which some say is 600 years old. In its shade the white colonists made a treaty in 1652 with the Susquehannock Indians. Alumnus Francis Scott Key ("The Star-Spangled Banner") grew nostalgic beneath it in 1806 when he was trying to raise money for St. John's. Here in 1824 the old, fat, crippled Marquis de Lafayette reviewed local troops. Under this venerable poplar are held St. John's commencements every June. Last week it was the scene of the inauguration of St. John...
Shrilling the "Star Spangled Banner," Shanghai Boy Scouts and Shanghai Girl Guides escorted Mrs. Short to the biggest funeral Shanghai has ever given a white man. His body lay embalmed in a steel coffin of immense weight. As it passed through packed Shanghai streets, the crowd panicked. Overhead zoomed Chinese planes (prudently withheld from action two months ago against the Japanese). Chinese pilots showed their skill in daring turns and sideslips. At Hungjao Airdrome, from which Robert Short went up to certain Death last February, his steel coffin was lowered into a hole in the ground. During the funeral...