Word: banners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week M. Leon Blum and his handful of Unified Socialist Deputies continued to flaunt their banner with the strange device "OBSTRUCTION!" M. Blum commands less than one-sixth of the votes in the Chamber; his cohorts represent less than one-tenth of the electorate of France. Yet it happens that, by supporting or refusing to support the bloc of Radicals and Radical-Socialists headed by M. Herriot, M. Blum has been able to obstruct and coerce the Cartel des Gauches,*upon which all the recent governments of France have been forced to rely for a majority...
...more cultured organs of the U. S. press carried lacrimose editorials. Then correspondents cabled from Moscow that M. Stanislavsky was "working as usual" and by no means blind. The original report was traced to Morris Gest, subtle Manhattan showman, under whose banner Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre toured the U. S. amid fashionable acclaim two seasons ago. In its pristine form, the rumor had it that the great Director "was stricken while rehearsing . . . The Girl of the Golden West...
...Operations. Suddenly the morning sky was riven by the 21-gun presidential salute from an artillery battery at Fort Myer. Just before 11 a.m. the party entered the gates of Arlington Cemetery and proceeded on foot to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A band played "The Star Spangled Banner." The President advanced flanked by the Secretaries of War and the Navy. He deposited a large wreath of white Chrysanthemums upon the tomb. The three then stepped back and bowed their heads in reverence. Mrs. Coolidge then advanced and laid a white rose on the tomb. So was celebrated...
Prolonged chearing followed French's speech, but eventually the cheers turned to calls for a speech from Mike, the "original rooter," who has been assisting in the cheerleading. Mike was finally prevailed upon to speak, and was understood to say that 1929 was a banner class and would do various, emphatic things to Yale. HARVARD 1929 YALE 1929 Burns, l.e. r.e., Bingham Clark, l.t. r.t., Eddy Parkinson, l.g. r.g., Charlesworth Dorman, c. c., Phillips Goodwin, r.g. l.g., Godman Robinson, r.t. l.t., Spiel O'Connell, r.e. l.e., Kline Putnam, q.b. q.b., Miller French, l.h.b. r.h.l., Brandenburg Moore, r.h.b. l.h.b. Garvey Cuaningham...
...spirit of the revolution is probably not that of Communism anyway," stated the Bishop, "For you know how much the Chinese like to use high-sounding phrases. The work Communism serves as a banner in this revolution, but I don't believe that the revolutionists intend to put into practice the Communistic principles...