Word: banners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then in the midst of the Russo-Finnish crisis the first signs of Young Communist League disruption appeared and by 1941 the ASU was a diseredited front. Out of its ruins emerged four non-Communist groups, all calling for aid to the Allies while the ASU carried a banner shouting "imperialist war": Student League for Progressive Action, Student Defenders of Democracy, Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, and Democracy's Volunteers. Amid great oclat the Student Merger Convention at Harvard in December of 1941 set up the Student League of America--doomed from the start to dissolution before...
...Maharaja sent military bands to serenade the Americans nightly. They played Nepalese hill tunes and a creditable version of the Star-Spangled Banner. There were numerous dinners, receptions, reviews, movie showings and sightseeing tours. Formal afternoon clothes, as well as white ties and tails, were frequently worn. But the highlights of the visit were two official durbars. For the first durbar Nepal's King, Maharajadhiraja Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur Shah Bahadur Shum Shere Jung Deva,* who rarely appears in public, officially presided in a long baroque hall hung with pictures of his predecessors. Satterthwaite presented a letter from...
...disarmed the local police, held the town for ten days. The People's Purge Committee added 32 new demands. Samples: an autonomous constitution, the surrender of monopoly controls to islanders. Some rebels even talked of a U.S. protectorate. In Pingtung, a band of them sang The Star-Spangled Banner as they took over the town...
...surrey (later a Fiat), he ran everything with Scottish austerity. As a result of his insistence that all paper work be done on the backs of old envelopes, Smith Brothers kept no records for 65 years. Trade's pet project was the Prohibition Party, under whose banner he once ran for mayor. He was soundly beaten by a local brewer...
...smoke-blackened wine cellar saw a sight that made him rub his eyes. Around a table sat a group of middle-aged men, some bemonocled, some with pince-nez, all with wide silk bands of green, white and gold across their chests. Before them stood an elaborate, gold-fringed banner with the same colors, and beside it lay a wooden mallet covered with faded signatures. Meeting here amid Berlin's ruins was a chapter of Saxo-Borussia, one of the most important of the long-forbidden student corps which, long before Adolf Hitler, fostered Bismarck's "blood & iron...