Word: emblem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief Stites, like many another American male, keeps his religion in his womenfolks' name. His wife, daughter and sister are members of First Church; he is not. When he learned last spring that the church emblem had the place of honor, he swung into action and insisted that the two flags be reversed. Pastor Lewis Gaston Leary refused to make the change. So Chief Stites made it himself. Dr. Leary changed the flags right back. Last week the governing body of his congregation backed his stand that the "most sacred symbol of our religion should be second to nothing...
Cows and Pipe Organs. Fairchild shopped around and the burghers helped. Here was a plant wrapped in graveyard silence, there an empty garage. Artisans could be had for the asking. Soon many a converted machine shop began displaying the Fairchild emblem. Airplane parts in a trickle, then in a stream began flowing toward the main plant...
...Hunt Club he met Count Roberto Pinelli, member of the undersecretariat of the Ministry of War. S. K. and Pinelli discovered "a mutual enthusiasm for the writings of Thomas More," author of Utopia, 16th-Century blueprint of the society of the future. Though Pinelli wore "the founder emblem of the Fascist party . . . [S. K.] caught hints of his underlying hope that Fascism could and would eventually lead to the spiritual consolidation of Italy and the adoption of democratic principles." While waiting, S. K. found other uses for Pinelli...
Chip Quip. In Denver, the State director of revenue refused to put the Colorado state emblem, a buffalo, on new tax tokens for fear they would be called buffalo chips...
Reason: a State law forbids the use of a foreign government's insignia as a party emblem, and the hammer and pitchfork "stand for the same thing" as the hammer & sickle: labor's unity...