Word: emblem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appear in the picture, has retraced and re-enacted the main publishable stages in its cause and towards its possible cure. The motion in charts and animation makes newly graphic the basic principles of fission; shots heretofore unreleased to the screen suggest some of the effects, including, as one emblem or symbol more grim than any in Pompeii, the shadow of a human body, fire-stenciled into the pavement of Hiroshima...
...Socialism and Communism as "the difference between an ordinary dog bite and hydrophobia." Nor did he have any more use for other brands of collectivism. Returning from Europe on a German ship soon after Hitler came to power, he was summoned to a ceremony at which the new swastika emblem was raised in place of the republican flag. When an officer asked him to salute, he replied: "I would as soon salute that diagram as the first proposition of Euclid...
Board Chairman Smith, an ex-major general, was well aware that he might be accused of putting veterans out of business; he hastened to defend American's air cargo plans. In full-page newspaper ads he pinned a discharge emblem on American by pointing out that it employed 6,000 veterans, was therefore "the largest veterans group in air transportation." The little business veterans, who would prefer to be the largest group themselves, were not impressed with the general's logic...
Highlights among 127 Articles: The nature of the new Republic is thus defined: "France is a republic, indivisible, democratic and socially unified [sociale]. The national emblem is a tricolor flag, blue, white and red in three vertical bands. The motto of the Republic is 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity...
...Santa Maria, Niña and Pinta, were a new political party, the Movimento Unionista Italiano (Italian Unionist Movement). Its emblem was the Stars & Stripes, the Italian flag and a world map. The word spread through the fishing villages, vineyards and olive groves of southern Italy and Sicily, where almost every ragged family has a relative in the U.S. In last month's municipal elections, the Unionists won four local governments, elected a total of 227 aldermen. Last week jubilant Paladino announced that his followers now numbered 875,000 and that his party would run a full slate...