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...years as guardian of Harvard athletics. The traditions have grown around his familiar figure at Soldiers Field since the days of the late Percy Haughton. His official duties were to keep unauthorized persons from witnessing the secret practices of the varsity football team. Mike had a failed banner given to him in 1908 by Percy Haughton. Waving this flag before him he lead the snake dances and football rallies in the old days. At other times he would don a tail silk hat, and with the same banner attend the important weddings where Harvard athletes were concerned...
...airplane climbed Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, a War ace grown beefy, to roar over the Alps to Italy for the second time. He was a far milder Göring than the one who flew to Rome and back last month. In Rome the official banner of the Fascist party flapped from the central balcony of Benito Mussolini's huge Palazzo Venezia as signal that the Grand Council was meeting. Before seeing Mussolini, Premier Goring paid a little call which made oldtime diplomats smile. In Rome, visiting his father-in-law, was handsome young Prince Philip...
...oration will be followed by cheers given to the major sports teams, terminated by the traditional entery "for the ladies." Then the Seniors will present their class banner to the Freshmen. Next follows the mysterious 15 minutes allotted to the class of 1908, and five minutes to the class of 1933. The Exercises will terminate with cheers for the retiring President Lowell, then finally, the singing of "Fair Harvard...
...Declaration of Independence William Hooper, a vice president of the America's Good-Will Union, was sitting in a Manhattan subway train when a group of communists got on. Lustily they sang the "Internationale." Mrs. Tubman boiled, then rose and gave voice to "The Star-Spangled Banner." Over & over she sang it, pitching it higher and higher. Louder sang the Communists. At the next station more Communists got on, joined in the "Internationale." Mrs. Tubman pitched "The Star-Spangled Banner" still higher. At last she was obliged to get off the train to attend a meeting of the Good...
Some Nazi Storm Troops had just raided her apartment brandishing pistols, said Widow Ebert. They had demanded, "Give us your mustard flag!" (A derisive Nazi term for the now abolished German Republican banner of black, red & gold...