Word: flag
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...consorts (Alliance, Pallas and Vengeance) were commanded by French officers, manned by French seamen. Of Jones's own crew more than half were non-American. The captured Serapis was given to France. About the only things American about this whole fight were Jones, Richard Dale, and the American flag flying, when the Richard settled to the bottom...
While the candidacies of Jim Farley, Jack Garner and Millard Tydings ran their brief, unhappy course, while the anti-Third Term resolution was booed to the flag-draped rafters, while delegation after delegation said its say for Franklin Roosevelt, the President played host to a radio party of friends and trusted helpers. In the historic study that is saturated with the memories of critical scenes and critical decisions, he sat attentive beneath a painting of John Paul Jones...
...Survivors of the British merchantmen King John (5,228 tons) and Davisian (6,433 tons), picked up near the West Indies last week, revealed the roving presence of an Axis raider-an armed merchantman, flying the Swedish flag-which sank their ships. R. N. at once started a painstaking hunt...
...fancies himself a Chinese Goebbels. Born in The Netherlands Indies under the Dutch flag, educated in Britain, Austria, Germany, Puppet Tang has long admired Nazi methods...
World War II has made patriotism a second religion for many a U. S. citizen. But not for Jehovah's Witnesses. The Witnesses believe that Biblical prophecies literally govern every earthly event, that the U. S. flag, financiers, politicians-and all religions but their own-are agents of Lucifer, who is at large in the world and now grooming himself for a terrific last-ditch fight with Jehovah. Witnesses have recently been mobbed from Maine to Cali fornia (TIME, June 24). Last week they suffered: 1) at Columbus, Ohio, where Governor Bricker refused to reinstate a canceled contract that...