Word: banners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secured a clerkship in the Department of Labor. President Harding made her position permanent. President Coolidge allowed her to serve two years beyond the regular retirement age- 70. The reason for this universal desire to serve Mrs. McBlair is that her grandfather, Francis Scott Key, wrote "The Star Spangled Banner...
George the Last. Disappointed but undaunted by this setback, Pangalos, Kondylis and Hadjikyriakos all enlisted under the banner of Plastiras and Gonatas. While the unhappy George II "reigned though he could not rule," a degenerate struggle for supremacy was waged between Plastiras at Athens and his purely nominal adherent, Pangalos, who had succeeded in demanding and obtaining the military governorship of Macedonia and Thrace. Bribes and the subtle poisons for which the modern Greeks are notorious were resorted to with abandon. By 1923, Pangalos had gathered sufficient power to become chiefly instrumental in forcing King George II into exile (TIME...
...Outside of letter carriers and clerks and those directly concerned with the handling of the mails, the civilian employes of the United States Government include the largest number of loafers, time-killers and buck-passers that I have ever seen brought together under one banner...
...curious to see how this condition of affairs has paralyzed the efforts of all political groups which could lay claim to the badge of "liberal". That heterogeneous combination of farmers, union laborers, intellectuals, sputtering communists, and Republican malcontents, which was ranged beneath the banner of the late Senator LaFollette, a year ago, has disintegrated into its various components, though echoes of its pseudo-Marxian principles are still heard in agricultural problems. The Democratic party, its morale shattered by internal feuds, has almost succumbed to the general apathy, as it half-heartedly pursues an economic policy drawn along traditional laisser-faire...
Back at the beginning of 1925, many business prophets predicted a banner year for U. S. railroads. Their prediction has been realized in fact. In October, the Class I roads broke all earnings records. Total earnings for that month reached $137,699,986-an increase of more than $3,000,000 over the September record of $134,584,916. Earnings for October, 1924, were...