Word: banners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, this nation finds itself in an embarrassing situation on the issue of UN trusteeships of non-self-governing areas, the details of which program incidentally was chiefly of American origin. Adamantly refusing to surrender to anyone the banner of all-out support of the UN and its principles, the U. S. at the same time hears its political leaders insist on the annexation, outright or by subterfuge, of the Pacific islands which were taken from the Japanese during and after the war. The latest of these utterances stems from a report on these islands by a House Naval Affairs...
...Nazis destroy the work of the AMG and are only defeated by their ruthlessness that incites a murderous riot. Anti-nazi Germans are killed before they can re-educate their people, stiff-necked Nazis, recently shorn of their Charlie Chaplin mustaches, slither around the stage, eager to rehoist the banner of fascism, and badly oriented American troops sell nylons and democracy for nightly fraternization. These are all familiar themes, stories that fill the columns of our daily papers. But the effect of the news releases cannot approach the impact achieved by portraying the scenes on the stage...
...suggests-expanding the testimony he had already given before the congressional Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee-was the banner day for U.S. naval stupidity. Eight years before, in 1933, elaborate Pacific maneuvers known as Fleet Problem 14 had been performed. Their underlying assumption: that an enemy would strike with carrier-based planes at a U.S. naval base. Yet "at Pearl Harbor, at the moment of the most intense Pacific crisis in 1941, we repeated the very conditions of Fleet Problem...
...falling banner of filmdom was grasped after the opening gun by Ronald Reagan, father of two, who snapped back, "If the professor could be persuaded to leave the cloistered halls where intellectual inbreeding substitutes for the 'synthetic' life of Hollywood, I believe that we could show him that the people in the studios are a pretty good cross section of American life, no better, no worse...
...fresh start. But if his new column brings him another competence, Dadswell insists it will have to come from little papers. He has promised never to raise his rates ($10 monthly for papers under 10,000 circ.). In his growing string he is proudest of the Cambridge (Md.) Banner, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times and the Bradenton (Fla.) Herald, presumably because he thinks they are proud of him. Says Dadswell: "If the President of the United States walked into their offices and told them they could not run my column, they would tell him to go to hell...