Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exercises in the Stadium: consisting of the Ivy Oration, the surrender of the Class Banner to the Class of 1937, the Confetti Battle, and a presentation by the Class of 1909. Seats in the Stadium are priced...
...poor man's fight.'' Returning from a fishing trip that summer, Shoemaker stopped one night at a dance hall which reeked of Wartime spirit. Bunting and flags aroused his ire to such an extent that he refused to stand up when "The Star-spangled Banner" was played. The crowd, observing the lone sitter, moved toward him in mass formation, growling, ugly, threatening...
Patriotic anthems have a way of making trouble for symphony conductors. Great Karl Muck was driven from Boston for not playing "The Star-Spangled Banner'' at a Wartime concert. Arturo Toscanini was beaten by Italian youths when he refused to play the Fascist Hymn in Bologna...
...time, the first twelve experimental Wasp and Hornet engines were sputtering and coughing in the Pratt & Whitney shop, Shareholder Deeds had moved to Hartford to become assistant treasurer, later secretary & treasurer and still later vice president. The next two years were banner years for Pratt & Whiney and for Stockholder Deeds's $40 investment. Pratt & Whitney engineers developed the highest-powered air-cooled motor in existence, fitted with split crankshafts (for greater endurance), new type cylinder heads (for greater cooling). Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic fired a nation-wide interest in aviation-and aviation stocks. The public rushed...
...members has been as informal as that of the Administration during the past eleven months. The President has surrounded himself with a new hierarchy of civil servants, starting at the top with the Brain Trust and proceeding on down to the lower classes of civil servants under the banner of the National Recovery Administration, the A.A.A., and others. These extra workers were chosen without aid of any competitive system of examinations. With the ranks of the civil service steadily swelling, it is obvious that some equitable, competitive system of examinations should be set up, or the crys of Lord Hewart...