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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...
...field of the banner forming Mr. Longworth's background is at the upper left hand corner whereas it should be in the upper right hand corner according to my understanding of the courtesies due our national emblem...
Usual Polish pandemonium broke out. Communists unfurled a huge red banner, flapped it in the faces of government deputies who closed their eyes and lustily bawled the "War Song of the Legionaries of the First Brigade" (favorite Pilsudski anthem), then marched from the hall...
...triumphs and one tie, while it suffered only two defeats. The same record was turned in this fall, but Harvard's schedule was one of the toughest in years. The same major opponents will be faced again in 1930, but Harvard rooters may look ahead with confidence to a banner year for the Crimson eleven and Coach Horween...
...Trenton he was at Apia, Samoa, when possession of the island was contested by Great Britain, Germany, the U. S. When a tidal wave drove ashore the warships of the three countries, he ordered his doomed ship's band to play the "Star-spangled Banner" while lashed to the rigging...