Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time has come" cried Grand Exalted Shannon, "when the issue is between the Stars and Stripes and the Red flag." To the 500,000 Elks in 1,400 cities he was carrying orders...
...paintings alone were supposed to be worth more than the castle. One day last week the Duke and Duchess were on vacation in England and so was the Private Secretary, Commander Henderson. Belatedly Sergeant Irvine, head of the Castle guard, went up on the roof to half-staff the flag of Northern Ireland for Germany's late, great President von Hindenburg. As he fiddled with the ropes Sergeant Irvine smelt smoke. It curled in tiny wisps from the apartments of the private secretary. As he raised the alarm crackling flames burst through. Before fire engines could travel the twelve miles...
...because of the cloud which Senator Black's mail contract investigation has thrown around the question of subsidies. It costs about twice as much to build a ship in the U. S. as in any other land and at least 50% more to operate it under the U. S. flag...
...four months in 1920 after the treaty of Sèvres had freed the land from Turkish tyranny. Witnesses testified that the pro-Soviet Archbishop was as good as dead when, on Armenian Day at Chicago's Century of Progress last summer, he refused to speak until an Armenian Republic flag had been removed from the stand. Forty-two witnesses testified for the State, 33 for the defense. Scenes of the murder were re-enacted. A burly assistant district attorney marched in front of the jury box, waving a pencil as if it were a crucifix. One by one three flashing...
...commission had hardly been named before a howl of protest went up from Philadelphia's flag-waving Air Defense League. Snorted the League's president, Col. Samuel Price Wetherill: "The selfsame lobby which opposed the Administration's policy of cleaning house in connection with the airmail contracts has evidently succeeded in causing two members of the commission to be appointed . . . whose membership . . . promises ill for disinterested findings." The Air Defense League objected particularly to the past records of Members Warner and Hunsaker...