Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parisian Communist is not a Muscovite one, and Frenchmen can wave the tricolor, forgetting the apparent anomoly of the white and the blue on the banner. It has long been merely a question of time before France would have to make up her mind. While the ball was being passed from Flandin to Laval to Sarraut with badly concealed clumsiness, thunder was coming from the left and fire from the right. In arriving at the crossroad, canny Frenchmen saw the issue as it really was and made a sharp left turn. If European history for the last few years...
...became president of big University of Chicago in 1929, he has enjoyed himself tremendously. He reduced the term of Chicago's undergraduate course from four years to whatever length of time a clever student might need to lope through it, ignored critics outside the University, passionately upheld the banner of academic freedom. Many a Chicago teacher, however, has been disconcerted by "Bob" Hutchins' exuberance, his insistence that colleges should present their students with "clear and distinct ideas...
...third delegation entered the Democratic primary when a group of Townsendites chose Representative John Steven McGroarty, poet laureate of California, to carry the banner of $200-per-month for oldsters. Some distant observers assumed that the McGroartys had Dr. Townsend's support. Instead, Dr. Townsend and several of his leading followers declared that, as a matter of policy, they would not support Representative McGroarty or any candidate for President on the Democratic ticket. This week Representative McGroarty publicly broke with Dr. Townsend...
...stage directions. At 3:45 o'clock on the afternoon of the Essen speech radios all over Germany echoed the shrill yip of Minister Goebbels: "RAISE FLAGS!" On that instant from every flagstaff in Germany and from the windows of thousands of little cottages unrolled the swastika banner. Then followed the voice of Dr. Goebbels, solemn as a priest: "Adolf Hitler is Germany...
...candidates for whom Germans will vote. Reason: they are all human blanks, der Führer's stooges, and their names do not matter. Latest German electioneering transports were in the remilitarized Rhineland where 25,000 jammed a domed hall from the balcony of which floated a white banner reading, "THE WORLD LOOKS TOWARD HITLER - BUT DER FüHRER LOOKS TO YOU! EACH VOTE ON MARCH 29 WILL BE A WEAPON IN THE HAND OF DER FUHRER...