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...result is that the American merchant flag was driven from the high seas before the War and will be again driven from the seas unless Congress is prepared to pay for the cost of the restrictions it imposes...
Finally Roosevelt III is about to be inaugurated before an assemblage including flag-draped statues of G. Washington and A. Lincoln. The oath of office is read and T. R. Ill denounces it, claiming absolute power. Then C. Putnam emerges dramatically from the base of the Lincoln statue. A follower of Roosevelt shoots. The bullet nicks Lincoln and ricochets off. The bullet embeds itself firmly and fatally...
...Kahr of Bavaria moved his office from the Infantry barracks, where he had been installed since the Ludendorff-Hitler putsch, to the Government Building. Nothing exciting or interesting in that. But what did cause some gossip was that Dr. von Kahr caused to be raised the old German Flag, black, white and red, instead of the Republican Flag, black, red and gold...
Richmond is a town flowing with charm and sentiment. Last week the Confederate flag was flying on Monument Avenue, and the town was alive with scoldings and whisperings. John Drinkwater's Robert E. Lee had just played to generous audiences in the capital of the South, and the tumult and the shouting had not died. Protests came. Lee had not been so stout. His beard was silky. It was not bristly. Historical events were not thus and so. In the midst of this fluttering and chittering, I sought out the lovely old frame house where Ellen Glasgow lives...
Always aware of the strength of such an appeal, Mr. Gompers uses it himself. If Hearst first blinds the American masses with the red flag of "big money" and then feeds them Soviet propaganda, is Gompers justified in playing upon the very same prejudice to rouse these masses against "bloody Moscow"? Big business, charges the President of the American Federation of Labor, has been using Mr. Hearst as a willing tool to reopen relations with Russia...