Word: banners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extra strong mash to be known as ''Prince's Brew." Waiting at the flying field to greet him was the Chairman of the Company, Colonel the Right Honorable John Gret-ton. Conservative M. P. for the Burton Division of Staffordshire. Waving proudly over the old brewery was a great banner lettered GOOD HEALTH TO OUR PRINCE. Edward of Wales attended a special luncheon after which he sampled with relish five separate and distinct brews, including a famed ale made by his gastronomically expert grandfather, Edward VII. Slightly flushed, Edward of Wales went with the directors later to the brew house...
...draughty Moscow public dining hall a group of 99 U. S. tourists licked up grey beluga caviar last week, wryly gulped throat-scorching vodka. A band struck up "The Star-Spangled Banner." The tourists, clearing their throats, joined in the chorus. "It was the first time," opined the Associated Press, "that 'The Star-Spangled Banner' had been played in Moscow since the War." The day was the eleventh anniversary of the assassination by Soviet executors of Tsar Nicholas...
...corporation issued earnings figures for the first half of 1929, showed general increases over the corresponding 1928 period. The first half of the year is almost always better than the second because of the July and August "summer slump." But even with this qualification 1929 promised to be a banner year of bumper prosperity. Of special interest among many earnings were...
...death of Woodrow Wilson than for his Democratic outpourings in 1924. Last year Mrs. Belle Moskowitz, publicist-friend of Candidate Smith, headed the publicity committee, wrote little, got little printed. Working for the Brown Derby in Washington last year were goateed Charles S. ("Buck") Hayden of the Nashville Banner, whiteheaded Robert Moores Gatee of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Their blunders ? for example, calling Candidate Hoover a "fat candidate from Piccadilly"?have not yet been forgotten...
...Paul, are realized, 15,000,000 U. S. Presbyterians, Methodists and Episcopalians will soon be united in common worship. The Presbyterians voted to take steps toward union at once. Said one delegate. "How much more powerful an army could we muster if we churches fought under one banner...