Word: flag
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...blue & white flag flapped quietly last week beside the Stars and Stripes, on flagpoles here & there throughout the land. But in other towns, officials nervously stood by the halyards, ready to hoist or lower away as embattled clubwomen and veterans' organizations argued...
...week (see INTERNATIONAL) , and hundreds of earnest men & women had made plans to fly U.N. flags; governors had issued the appropriate proclamations. At the suggestion of a National Grange publicity man, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had mailed out information on kits for making homemade U.N. flags to sewing circles from Maine to Yakima, Wash. They were told that U.N. flags should be displayed on a level with-but to the left of-the U.S. flag, and should be about the same size. The League of Women Voters pestered town councils to get the flags flown at city buildings...
...flag of the United Nations was unfurled before University Hall yesterday along with the flags of the Harvard and the nation as the University commemorated the fifth anniversary of the United Nations...
...sound trucks bellowed over the plump pumpkins and the crookneck squash of country fairs, at street corners where the fallen leaves gathered in the gutters. Campaigners' voices rasped hoarsely in the crisp autumn air, and high-school bands thumped and oompahed down main streets to flag-draped platforms. The Great American Game of Politics was in full swing...
...ordering the new flag as I know we shall need it on future occasions," said Little...