Word: anthem
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...Star Spangled Banner" is not the national anthem of the U. S. The U. S. has no national anthem, officially. In an effort to induce Congress to adopt Francis Scott Key's poem as the national anthem, representatives of many a patriotic and military organization flocked before the House Judiciary Committee last week to urge enactment of a bill for that purpose. The bill's author: Maryland's Representative John Charles Linthicum from the district containing Fort McHenry, over which Key, a prisoner on a British warship, beheld his country's flag still flying...
...Chicago, the W. C. T. U. cut a birthday cake with ten candles, sang their anthem, "It's in the Constitution and it's there, there to stay." Excerpt...
...Tripoli, and Beyond," contains the following reference to "The Marines' Hymn": "But hard boiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown out anything suggestive of home or homesickness with their Corps anthem, "From the Halls of Montezuma," a song of many unprintable versions." (italics supplied...
...seems pertinent to ask, when, or how TIME ever conceived the idea that there is any unprintable version of ''The Halls of Montezuma"? Let me say to you, to all writers for TIME and to all its readers, that all Marines, rank and file, honor that anthem and hold it in the highest esteem. To them it is not a song to be desecrated by unprintable versions, or in any other way, and any attempt to do so in any Marine Camp would be summarily dealt with. During almost 26 years of service in the Corps, dating...