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...reached the New York Times; the New York World reported 2% bushels of verse. But at Le Bourget, shortly after Captain Lindbergh landed a fortnight ago, there was a poet who squatted on the flying field to gain first-hand inspiration-like Francis Scott Key writing the Star Spangled Banner. The squatter was sleek Maurice Rostand, son of the late Edmond Rostand.* The results were disappointing, particularly when translated into English. An excerpt...
Last week in Chicago, in Kansas City, Mo., and in Omaha another Southerner once more raised the state rights banner, with Prohibition as the subject of his story. Touring the West in an unofficial but unmistakable preConvention campaign, Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland warned his audiences against overcentralization of power. "This centralization of government into remote hands," said he, "chills the free play of the free impulses of a free people...
...quote from TIME, May 2: " 'The Star Spangled Banner' ... is, according to many an American, of too elaborate composition, too great a range, to be suitable for the national hymn...
...possible that in your colossal ignorance you do not know that the "Star Spangled Banner" is our official national anthem ? You must know this, and therefore your expression "to be" is sneeringly malicious and most offensive...
...interpolated into the second act, revealing the wheels of propaganda at work, affording respite to taut nerves in the audience. Martin Henderson is filmed "Enlisting with Uncle Sam at a dollar a year." In the end, young Parkman turns up, only wounded. The band plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" to a happy curtain...