Word: bannerize
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...from the destroyer divisions (26 strong, four abreast, led by the cruiser Concord), then from the dreadnaughts (eleven strong, in three columns, led by the Texas),* finally from the 33,000-ton aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lexington, the presidential salute of 21 guns per ship plus the "Star-Spangled Banner" by each ship's band, came muffled from a mile away downwind. Alert at first, then seemingly lost in thought, the central figure stood with his fedora hat on during most of the spectacle. He did not reply when white-whiskered old Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes, soon-retiring Chief...
...Hoover reviews Greatest Naval Pageant in History of Nation" headlines the Metropolitan Press. For more than three hours, according to the news dispatch which adds color to the banner across the front page, the massed naval strength of the United States "played games of mimic warfare" with Commander-in-Chief Herbert Hoover as an interested spectator...
...supervisor of Cleveland, president; Max Krone, a Morgan assistant, vice president. A prize trip abroad was awarded to George E. Wahlstrom, supervisor of instrumental music of Ashtabula, O. A Resolution was passed to suggest to Congress to make "America the Beautiful"* the National anthem, instead of "The Star Spangled Banner," the words of which were voted too militant, the music too difficult for children to learn easily...
...Samuel A. Ward, words by Katherine Lee Bates, late Professor of English at Wellesley College. At the Bandmasters' Convention held a fortnight ago in Middletown, Ohio, there were delegates who wanted Sousa's "Stars & Stripes Forever" for the National anthem. Their criticism of "The Star Spangled Banner" was that it came from an old English drinking song...
...clock--Stadium Exercises: Ivy Oration, Cheering, Song by Glee Club, Presentation of Class banner to 1933; Singing of "Fair Harvard"; Confetti Battle...